The Earl of Klesamor Hall by Adella J Harris

Author:Adella J Harris [Harris, Adella J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: gay romance, m/m romance, gay historical romance, gay regency romance
Publisher: Adella J Harris
Published: 2018-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

There weren’t many letters in the morning post, so composing replies didn’t take very long. I thought I could probably guess which families in the county had marriageable daughters and how many by the number of invitations they sent despite the regular rejections, a thought which made me smile. Once the rejections had been finished and left in the study—Lord Trenwych wasn’t there so I merely left them on the desk—I went downstairs to find that Mrs. Peyton was busy discussing the correct time and place for a cricket lesson with the footmen. I didn’t want to disturb her with something that could wait, so I returned to the library and did as I had said I would and selected a book. The window seat had the best light in the room and gave me a nice view if I wanted to let my mind drift, so that is where I settled, with the book on my knees and three pillows behind my back should I wish to rest.

I must have been more tired than I’d realized. While there was nothing wrong with the book I’d chosen, it didn’t hold my interest at all, and I found myself staring out the window at nothing more than at the words on the page. Someone was trying to kill Lord Trenwych, and they were trying to make it look like Lord Hartley was doing it. The first attempts—the curricle accident, the shots in the woods, the balustrade on the tower—all could have been accidents and nearly impossible to trace back to Lord Hartley with any sort of proof, but the latest, the poison that caught me, that was different. He was the obvious suspect in that one. So what had changed?

I tried to turn my attention back to the book, but my mind kept drifting back to that question. I couldn’t think of anything that might have made someone more desperate to finish murdering Lord Trenwych. That made me wonder about another, related question. What would change for Lord Hartley if his father died not from one of the accidents but from poison that might be traced to him? Had he been shot or broken his neck in one of the other incidents, there would have been talk, there was always talk, but there would have been nothing beyond that. As far as I could see, there would have been no way to prove that Lord Hartley had caused those things to happen and not enough doubt to bring the magistrate in—not against the new Earl of Trenwych. If Lord Hartley had caused a fuss, then it might have been investigated, but if he were behind it causing a fuss would be beyond foolish. Best to just say it was an accident and leave it at that. But the poison, that was something that would be harder to ignore. Lord Hartley would have had to bring some sort of influence to stop that from being investigated, and doing that would make him look even guiltier than a verdict in court would.

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