The Missing Page (Page & Sommers Book 2) by Cat Sebastian

Author:Cat Sebastian [Sebastian, Cat]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Independent
Published: 2022-01-17T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

James spent the remainder of the afternoon in the drawing room poring over photograph albums. Lilah had returned from Plymouth in a palpably edgy mood but with a brand new electric fire, and now the drawing room was, if not warm, then at least borderline comfortable. Martha sat near the fire, mending a shapeless garment, and Lilah perched by the window, smoking a cigarette. Even Sir Anthony was quiet, reading the newspaper and smoking an endless series of cigarettes at the desk. Camilla was half asleep on the settee. Mr. Trevelyan had arrived that afternoon and was next door in the library. Only Madame Fournier was absent, having declared herself in need of a rest before dinner.

“I was wondering something,” said James, not meeting the eyes of anyone in the room. “Rose turned twenty-one in May of 1927. That’s when she would have inherited Aunt Charlotte’s fortune, wasn’t it?” The Sommers family had been enormously wealthy; very little of his father’s share had made its way to James, his mother having had expensive tastes and a penchant for roulette, but Aunt Charlotte’s inheritance ought to have been more or less intact. “Do any of you know what happened to it?”

He didn’t expect an answer. Leo said that Rose hadn’t been declared dead, so either that money was still sitting around somewhere or someone in this room had figured out a way to get a hold of it.

“Rather crass to declare people dead just to get money,” Camilla murmured sleepily from the sofa. “Father and I were of one mind.”

“Quite right,” agreed Sir Anthony. “Vulgar.”

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