The Likelihood of Lucy (Regency Reformers Book 2) by Jenny Holiday

Author:Jenny Holiday [Holiday, Jenny]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-01-07T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

“Nothing,” said Blackstone, scowling at Trevor and letting his fist fall to the table in his breakfast room. “In answer to your question, what I have turned up is a great deal of nothing. Everyone we spoke to at the party who knew Gelling or Hill had nothing but seemingly genuine affection for their late comrades. And nothing at all that would seem to connect the men in civilian life, though I still have men working on that.”

Trevor, unable to face Lucy the morning after that strange, charged interlude in her rooms, had invited himself to breakfast at Blackstone’s town house by showing up at the uncivilized hour of seven o’clock and was trying to distract himself by asking about Blackstone’s progress on the murders.

“I hope, my, ah…distraction that evening didn’t make for more work for you and Catharine,” Trevor said, knowing full well it had. He had simply laid down his duty and gone outside to assault Lucy.

When Blackstone made no answer other than to narrow his eyes and purse his lips, Trevor continued. “So it wasn’t a fellow soldier who murdered them. But the murders must be connected, mustn’t they, given that the second occurred on the anniversary of the first? Perhaps Hill and Gelling had a common enemy. Or maybe it wasn’t about them. Perhaps the man we seek wasn’t after them personally so much as—”

“What they stood for.”

Trevor shrugged. One side effect of having been a spy through the war was that one tended to see treason everywhere. It wasn’t likely in this case, but it wasn’t without the realm of possibility. “If the two men don’t have anything in common, do their regiments? Could there be a commanding officer in common who is actually being targeted?”

Blackstone shrugged, though Trevor knew better than to assume the gesture signified indifference.

A rap at the door interrupted the men, and the butler entered and announced Catharine.

“Good Lord, Stanway,” Blackstone said, “Why are you letting the riffraff in at this ungodly hour?”

The servant merely smiled and backed out of the room. Stanway was the only member of the household—other than the countess—who knew of the master’s secret career, so he knew to admit both Trevor and Catharine at any hour of the day or night.

“My dears, we have a problem.” Catharine collapsed theatrically into one of the chairs around the small breakfast table.

“Emily is still abed,” Blackstone said.

“It doesn’t matter,” Catharine said. “It’s about the Jade, so I haven’t come for Emily.”

“In that case,” said Blackstone, “should we not have this conversation at the hotel, where Miss Greenleaf can join us?”

I’d rather speak to the two of you alone first,” Catharine said, which suited Trevor. He didn’t need to see Lucy—he’d come here specifically to avoid seeing her, in fact. To look at her with her hair done up all primly but then to remember the feeling of her running her hands over his tattoos…the contrast between the demure Lucy and the bold one was too much to bear. He needed to wait for time to do its work, to dull the almost painful sensation of being around her.

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