The Heir of the Castle (Harlequin Romance) by Scarlet Wilson

Author:Scarlet Wilson [Wilson, Scarlet]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-05-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

CALLAN CHECKED THE records one more time. Annick Castle was in trouble. Lots of trouble. It was losing money like a leaky sieve. In a few weeks’ time he and Frank would have to hand over all this information to the new owner. What would they think? Because right now, all paths seemed to lead to the fact that Angus McLean hadn’t been managing at all.

He could see what the problems were. The biggest, and most obvious, was that Annick Castle had no income. The gas and electricity bills had quadrupled in the last ten years, but, then again, so had every family’s in the country.

Annick Castle wasn’t environmentally friendly. It was a draughty old girl, in rapid need of some maintenance. But even then his hands were tied. There were no modern windows to keep the freezing winter temperatures out, no proper insulation, no modern heating or modern appliances. The whole place really needed to be rewired. But rewiring was more than a little expensive, and the damage that would be incurred rewiring a building like this would be astronomical. The heritage people would have a fit. As for the roof...

He hadn’t even had a chance to glance at Angus’s boxes yet. All his time had been taken up with trying to sort out the accounts. It wasn’t just the castle. The family fortune had been damaged by the stock-market crash, some unlucky investments and poor interest rates. He was going to have to try and find some solutions—fast.

He closed the computer program and grabbed his jacket. The walls were starting to close in around him. He needed some fresh air and that was one thing Annick Castle had in abundance. It was time to find Laurie. She was the only person around here he wanted to spend any time with.

Part of him felt a little guilty that he didn’t want to spend more time around Angus’s children or grandchildren. Truth was, some of them he didn’t even like.

And a tiny part of him said why should he spend time with people that Angus hadn’t? And until he got to the bottom of that he wouldn’t be able to understand it.

But Laurie was different. She wasn’t constantly assessing the value of the castle. She wasn’t aligning herself with estate agents as he’d heard one of Angus’s sons doing yesterday.

Laurie was the only one of Angus’s relatives he felt a connection to. He couldn’t understand it. He couldn’t understand it at all, but after several hours surrounded by computers, paperwork and figures he found himself craving her company again.

It would be so much easier if he could put Laurie Jenkins in a box where she wasn’t a possible inheritor of the castle, and she wasn’t Angus McLean’s granddaughter. Then maybe he would be free to try and figure out what it was about her that drew him like a moth to a flame.

The scent of gingerbread had drawn him to the kitchen. But the evidence of her baking was sitting on two wire cooling trays with no sign of Laurie at all.

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