The True Heir (The Secrets of Nedworth Hall Book 6) by Merry Farmer

Author:Merry Farmer [Farmer, Merry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-02-19T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Despite Millie’s fears that everyone who saw her for the next few days would know just by looking at her that David had kissed her—and that she had most definitely kissed him back—nothing of any great import actually happened. Aside from Lord Bygrave’s astonishingly identical twin brother, Mr. Damien Dixon, arriving at Nedworth Hall. And Lady Eleanor increasing her efforts to undermine and destroy Lady Yvette.

Millie felt as though she were drifting through a dream as she trudged around after her mistress, listening to every vile thing imaginable said about Lady Yvette, but registering very little of it. That Lady Eleanor felt her place at Nedworth Hall was in danger from a rival noblewoman was nothing new. Neither were the lengths Lady Eleanor would go to if she thought she could defeat Lady Yvette in the imaginary war she was waging.

None of it was of any importance at all to Millie. The way her lips continued to tingle, even days after the kiss, and the way she could conjure the feel of David’s body close to hers and the warmth as he embraced her was important. So was the guilt of knowing what she would have done had Lady Eleanor not interrupted her.

The turmoil of discovering herself to be someone with different morals and standards than she’d thought she had genuinely troubled Millie. So much so that, early in the morning a few days after the kiss, she took to the desk in the tiny closet of a room adjacent to Lady Eleanor's guestroom to write to her mother, asking for advice.

“I find myself in the strange new position of wanting something that I know to be wrong with my entire heart,” she penned to her mother, trying not to weep with the force of her emotions as she scratched out her heart on the paper. “I have always tried my utmost to be good, as I know you would have me be. I have guarded myself so carefully. But David has spun me around completely, and I find that I have fallen in love with him despite my best efforts.

“You would love him dearly, Mama,” her letter continued. “He is so strong and intelligent. He has been nothing but kindness to all who have approached him, from the loftiest of the house guests to the lowest of the servants. Even those gentlemen who are at the party for less than savory reasons have been met with careful consideration from David. He does not need to be so kind and good to all around him, but he has been.

“There is something that I have not told you about David that changes everything, Mama. I know that I’ve written about him and my feelings for him since arriving here at Nedworth Hall, but the one thing I have failed to mention is that⁠—”

Millie stopped and sucked in a breath. She was bent low over her paper so that she could see by the light of the single candle Lady Eleanor had allowed her to write the words, but she straightened.

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