The Girl in the Photograph by Kirsty Ferry

Author:Kirsty Ferry [Ferry, Kirsty]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, mystery, Rossetti mysteries
Publisher: Choc Lit
Published: 2017-02-13T05:00:00+00:00

Sea Scarr Hall, Present Day

Lissy felt as if she was floating up the staircase. If she closed her eyes, she could almost swear she could hear the swish of fabric around her ankles and feel the starchiness of frills around her elbows. She knew there would be a satin ribbon tied around her waist and there was the fizzing warmth of the man beside her. Her hand rested on his arm, and there was, she knew, a hint of danger with it.

They had to hurry. Her husband might be back soon and …

‘We’re here.’ Stef’s voice woke her from her trance. She realised they were at the top of the stairs and new, exciting corridors led off in both directions. She stared at Stef, disorientated. He was looking down at her, something unreadable in his eyes.

‘Stef, did you feel anything strange when you walked up those stairs?’ she asked him cautiously; yet part of her wondered if it was just the fact that she was so close to a man who, clearly, still had the power to attract her and haunt her every waking moment. Seven years had not been long enough to make her forget – not at all.

And looking back at those stairs, she saw with horror that they must have been utterly mad to even consider walking up them – they looked even worse from this angle.

‘I was there yet I wasn’t,’ he replied. ‘It felt very dangerous, but I was glad you were by my side.’ Lissy saw a reddening under his olive skin. ‘But hey! We are talking crazy talk, are we not?’ He laughed, embarrassed.

‘Crazy talk,’ she repeated. ‘I would agree there.’ She hesitated on the landing and cleared her throat, trying to buy herself some time. ‘I think, if we get the orientation correct, the room with the lamp in the window should be this way.’ She pointed to the right.

Lissy was aware that she was still arm in arm with him and she considered carefully extricating herself, but decided against it. However odd this place was, however it made her feel, Stef at least was solid and real.

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