The Heiress Brides by Pamela Sherwood

Author:Pamela Sherwood [Sherwood, Pamela]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blue Castle Publishing

The police caught Willie Schuyler trying to flee out the back door of The Sands, and escorted him to the police station to share a cell with his fellow kidnappers. In the days that followed, Amy would learn more about the conspiracy hatched between him and Theo Van Horn. And of how they’d later recruited Tony Ogden, chafing under what he felt to be an insufficient allowance after his parents’ refurbishment of their summer cottage. Of how the three had singled out debutantes in their first year, counting on the girls’ youth and naïvete—as well as their fathers’ wealth—to make them easy marks. Of how they’d chosen to lie low after Maisie’s near-demise after her ordeal, only to start up six months later in Newport. And to be thwarted—ultimately and most satisfactorily—by two women, an artist, and a King Charles spaniel!

Now, however, all Amy wanted was to go home, and Thomas was all too willing to oblige her, sweeping her past the police with the high-handed declaration that Miss Newbold would be giving her full statement later. Amy beckoned to Eileen, hovering uncertainly on the periphery, and the young maid followed with obvious relief.

They piled into a carriage and before long, they were alighting in front of Shore House. The front door opened almost at once, and Amy’s family stood there, their faces alight with relief and joy at her return.

Her parents. Amy let them embrace her, felt her father’s careful hug as though he feared to crush her, felt the wetness of her mother’s tears against her cheek. She smiled at Andrew as he took her by the shoulders and looked her up and down, but all the while she never let go of Thomas’s hand.

“Mama, Papa—this is Miss Eileen Molloy, who was helping me to escape.” She gestured towards the girl, who came forward shyly. “I told her she could stay with us, for now.”

“Of course, my love.” Adam beckoned to the butler. “Brooks will show you to a room, Miss Molloy.”

After venturing a glance at Amy, who smiled reassuringly, Eileen bobbed a curtsy. “Thank you, sir.”

Laura, meanwhile, was hovering over her daughter. “Are you all right, my dear? I can have the doctor sent for—”

“I don’t need to see the doctor, Mama,” Amy broke in, “but I’d give a kingdom for a bath right now!”

“I’ll tell Mariette to draw one at once,” her mother promised and hurried upstairs.

Some minutes later, after repeatedly assuring her family that she was unharmed, Amy escaped upstairs, with Thomas at her heels. To her surprise, her parents did not make the slightest move to stop either of them. Gratitude towards Thomas for rescuing her, perhaps? Or was it just that they understood that she wanted only him right now?

Even Mariette, waiting in Amy’s room, was gently persuaded to step aside and leave her mistress to her fiancé’s ministrations, though the Frenchwoman departed with a certain glint in her eye and a faintly knowing smile on her lips.

Thomas closed the door behind them, shutting the rest of the world out, while Amy made a beeline for her private bathroom.

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