The Heiress Convenient Husband by Regina Scott

Author:Regina Scott [Scott, Regina]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: heroine in hiding, historical romance, humor, marriage of convenience, Regency romance, spies
Publisher: Edwards and Williams
Published: 2020-03-09T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Eva sent Pym to alert Mr. Greer and the militia. She sent Yeager to make sure Mr. Denby and Mr. Chance at the castle could see the fire from their vantage point. She hated waiting for news, but there was little else she could do. She and Patsy remained near the window, watching the flames climb higher until she could see the castle in their glow.

“How could this have happened?” she worried aloud.

“Someone’s playing a prank,” Patsy said. “Young folk thinking it’s all fine and good to hold a summer bonfire on the headland now that you and the magistrate have moved out of the castle.”

If only the reason was so innocent, but Eva couldn’t shake the fear that this was the work of their mysterious stranger.

Mr. Pym returned first.

“The militia are on their way,” he assured her and Patsy as he came back into the withdrawing room. “They didn’t even wait to don their red coats.”

“Did they at least take buckets, a water wagon?” Eva pressed.

“The village hasn’t needed one before now, miss,” Pym replied. “The last fire we had was at least twenty years ago. It was from a lightning strike on the hill above the spa, and it burned itself out before reaching any building. But never you fear, they have spades and wet cloth. That will have to do.”

Yeager took longer to return. “Stayed to help the militia,” he reported. “Took a bit for them to figure out how to work together, but they have it under control now. The fire was nearly spent when I left.”

She wanted to feel relieved. “What was the cause?”

His face darkened. “It was hard to see into the center of the burn, but it looked to me like someone had set the grass on fire.”

“Someone out to harm the castle?” Eva guessed.

As if she was just as concerned, Patsy cringed, but she stayed up with the rest of them until the glow from the hillside had subsided, and the smoke had melded with the night.

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