The Secret of Langley Manor by Alicia Donovan

Author:Alicia Donovan [Donovan, Alicia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Skylan Publishing House
Published: 2020-06-20T22:00:00+00:00

His name escaped my lips before I could stop it. “Sean?” My voice echoed against the grey walls.

He swirled around. “Abigail?” His eyes darted from one side of the basement to the other looking for me.

I stepped out from my hiding place. “What are you doing?”

“How . . . What?” he floundered.

“I can hear you all the way up in my bedroom! You woke me up.”

“Impossible.”

“Wrong. Possible. There is a vent in my room that must go directly to the basement.”

“What?” His face paled. “Do you think anyone else heard?”

“No one else was up that I saw.” Except for that strange rustling I’d heard when I was in the kitchen. But that was probably nothing.

He visibly relaxed and sighed, saying, “Good.”

“What are you doing?” I repeated, my voice irritated and sharp.

Sean rushed over to me and grabbed my arm, pulling me closer to the door. “Abby! There is a treasure on this property. And I think—I think it is behind this door.”

“What are you talking about?”

He ran a hand over his face. “Granted, it’s a rumor. But it’s all you hear about in town. The great secret of Langley Manor, and it’s a treasure.”

“Sean . . .”

“The first Langley put it here. Now it’s just waiting for someone to find it!”

I put my hands up, hoping to stop his excitement. “Sean, even if that’s true, it wouldn’t be yours. It’s Michael’s.”

“He’s got enough money. And before you give me those goody-two-shoes eyes, I checked. The guy’s loaded.” Sean put his hands on my shoulders. “But people like us, Abby—we’ve never had more than a couple quarters to rub together. We’ve worked hard—too hard and never got anything from it. This is the leg up we need.”

I pulled in a sharp breath.

“I wouldn’t be greedy,” he continued. “I’d share it with other people who need it. It’d be like Robin Hood. We’d be helping our people. I’m sorry you found out like this. I wanted to talk to you about it first.”

I stared at him. I couldn’t say I wasn’t, tempted at least a little. He was right. People like us never got a break. It was one slough after another. But this wasn’t something I could do.

“I can’t, Sean. And neither can you—not really. I know you’ve had your rough patches, but this isn’t you.” I laid a hand on his cheek. “You know that. This is just a lapse in judgement.”

The light in his eyes—excitement, greed, or both—died. He glanced from me to the door as he dropped his hands from my shoulders. “You’re right. And the stupid thing wouldn’t open anyway.”

“If you were caught down here, you’d lose your job.”

“Probably.” Sean sounded resentful as he laid the crowbar against the wall and turned off his light.

I pulled on his arm as we started across the room. “When did this happen? When did you start wanting so much more?”

“When haven’t we? All those conversations about what we would do with a million dollars?”

“Yeah, but . . . in real

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