Shipwrecked with the Captain by Diane Gaston

Author:Diane Gaston
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-11-20T19:17:41+00:00

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In the morning of their last day, the messenger Lucien had sent to Lord Stonecroft knocked at the door of the dining room where Lucien sat with Lady Rebecca, Ella and Cullen.

‘I have news for you,’ the man said.

‘How did you find me?’ Lucien asked. There must have been dozens of inns along the route he might have stopped in.

‘Just stopped at every inn I could see.’ He held out the envelope that Lucien had given him the previous day. ‘Lord Stonecroft is not in London. He is spending the summer in Bath.’

‘Bath?’ Lady Rebecca exclaimed.

Bath was one of those places naval officers retired to after leaving their ships. Once most fashionable to the titled elite, it now had been replaced by Brighton where the Prince Regent preferred to spend his time.

‘I thought it best to come back to find you,’ the man said. ‘If you want me to deliver the letter to the gentleman in Bath, I’ll be off straight away.’

Lucien handed the man some coins. ‘Yes. By all means deliver the letter to Bath.’

The man looked happily at the money in his hand, bowed and rushed off.

‘So we go to Bath, apparently,’ Lucien said.

‘No, Lucien,’ Lady Rebecca cried. ‘You cannot go to Bath. You need to be at the Admiralty to be assigned a new ship.’

‘I will escort you to Bath,’ he said quietly. ‘I will see you safely to where you must go. What kind of man would I be if I left you now?’

‘But what will happen if you do not appear at the Admiralty?’ she asked.

He did not know what would happen. He’d been absent for weeks. He wished he’d asked the messenger to wait. He’d not even informed the Admiralty that he was alive.

‘It will be a longer trip than to London,’ Cullen spoke up. ‘Shall I go speak to the coachmen?’

‘Thank you, Cullen. And if they are in agreement to transport us, see if they can be ready in half an hour.’ Lucien would write to the Admiralty from Bath.

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