Sinful Temptations by Samantha Holt

Author:Samantha Holt
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

It was madness. She was mad, Anna told herself. She glanced eagerly out of the carriage to see she was still five streets away from Harris’ townhouse. Her heart pounded sickeningly in her chest, yet the excitement would not be dampened.

By some miracle, she had managed to persuade herself not to invite Harris back to her hotel last night. She had done many things she didn’t wish to do in her life but that was harder than she’d thought possible. She had, however, assuaged him by agreeing to come to his house in the afternoon.

After an unproductive meeting with the investigator, she needed this. As selfish as it was, she needed him.

No man had ever made her feel like that. Perhaps it was because she’d been feeling so vulnerable that she let him close, but for the moment, she could not bring herself to worry about her motives. The dinner had been difficult, tolerating cold looks and quiet, snide remarks that were not meant to be heard but were really.

But she could tolerate all of that.

It was the loss of hope that had her so pained. She had finally spoken with Lady Marvelle about her adopted child. The woman, by all accounts, had been one of the more pleasant characters.

It had transpired that her nanny had been excellent, but they’d been persuaded they needed someone with more experience for their child now he was growing up and she’d been a little bitter. That explained why the nanny had expressed concerns about them. As near as Anna could tell, Lady Marvelle was a good mother.

And the mother to a child that was not adopted at the same time as her son. Lady Marvelle had been quite gracious in discussing the matter with her, and it seemed whilst it was not common knowledge, they had told their son of his adoption.

Another lead was dead. She’d wasted her time in London chasing down a child that wasn’t hers. Anna leaned her head back against the cushions. What now?

The investigator told her he’d continue to look into the adoption papers, but her son had been adopted so long ago now. It would be hard to find records of anything. She could not help feel she was paying the investigator to do little. After all, he could not access the upper echelons of society, whereas she could.

It looked as though he was certainly adopted by nobility in a very secret deal, likely so he would never have his inheritance questioned. She tugged out the adoption record from her purse, now crumpled and stained. Some of the crumples were from the amount of times she had tugged it out to stare at it. She scanned the words over and over.

The names had turned out to be fake. Would she ever find out what had happened to her son? Damn her family for making her give him up. Damn her for being weak enough to let them.

Anna put away the paper. There was little she could

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