Tempting Miss Allender by Wendy Vella

Author:Wendy Vella
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Vella Ink
Published: 2015-09-16T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

Patience stormed back inside to find her siblings standing side by side, facing her as she walked in through the parlor door.

“We are not going!”

“It is for the best,” Lucy said calmly.

“How can moving into the Belmont household help us? Surely it can only make matters worse, as suddenly the threat to us is also to them.” Patience tried to speak calmly, yet she wanted to kick something, namely a tall marquis. How dared he turn her siblings against her? Suddenly everything appeared beyond her control, and now Lucy and Charlie were trusting Mathew, but she was not yet sure she could do that.

Liar.

Ignoring the voice, she glared at her siblings. “We cannot simply move into his household, for pity’s sake. He has not even consulted his mother, and she lives there also.”

“She will not mind,” Lucy said.

“How do you know that?”

“Because she knows it is what our mother would have wanted.”

Lucy’s words were like a blow to her stomach, propelling the air out of her. “How can you know that?”

“I just do.”

She looked at her siblings, standing hip to hip, united in their belief that they should move into Mathew’s household, and felt a surge of betrayal. They did not believe she could keep them safe any longer, and, after a few words and no more than a week in his company, suddenly Mathew could provide them with a safe haven, while she could not.

“We are not moving into his household.”

She stormed out and went up to her bedroom, where she sat on her bed, thinking furiously. Was it her growing feelings for him that were stopping her? Did she trust him? Could she keep her heart whole if she saw him continually, and he kissed her again? Was it really best for them to move to his household, and were her personal feelings towards him making her unreasonable?

“Am I balking because of selfish reasons?” Patience whispered.

Falling backward onto the bed, she lay staring at the ceiling. Exhaustion was making her irrational. Perhaps after a few minutes of rest she could make sense of everything.

Patience woke to a knock on the door, and had no idea how long she had slept. Climbing to her feet, she went to open it, certain one of her siblings would be standing there.

“A note has arrived for you, Miss Allender.”

“Thank you, Mr. Toots.” She took it, quickly broke the seal, and read the few lines.

Come at once, I have news of an alarming nature concerning your cousin. It was signed Mr. Whitty, Private Investigator.

Shaking the last vestiges of sleep from her head, Patience quickly pulled on her bonnet and pelisse, then made sure her pistol was inside her reticule before she left.

“Where are you going, Patience?” Her sister was standing at the bottom of the stairs, looking up at her as she descended.

“I shall return shortly, Lucy.”

“Mathew’s carriages will be here soon. Charlie and I are nearly packed.”

“Send him a note, please, saying we are not moving.”

Lucy shook her head furiously. “I will not, not when Charlie and I wish to go.

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