The Viscount Returns by Black Eryn

Author:Black, Eryn [Black, Eryn]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Beau Coup Publishing, LLC
Published: 2015-05-03T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

The hallways were vacant of servants and furnishings. Though the family portraits had been left hanging it seemed that anything worth a farthing had been stripped away. This great manor had suddenly transformed itself to a mausoleum or a graveyard. If not for the occasional groans that came from his wife’s chamber Robert would have begun to feel that he was dreaming.

His feet itched to make their way to her door, but he knew that there would be no welcome there. Perhaps a quick departure would be best. After three days of his wife sequestered in her private chambers, Robert had begun to wonder if she would ever show her face to him again, or would she prefer to brick herself away behind the closed door rather than hold a simple conversation with him?

“No!” Came a scream of desperation. “Please! Dear God, save me!” the voice cried out in terror.

Robert did not need to question whose voice it was or the pain in it. Running for the door, Robert was stopped abruptly by Ruth, who emerged shaken and disheveled. She held on tight to the bowl of water that sloshed between the two of them, spilling over to splash onto the floor.

“What do you think you are doing jumping out at a defenseless woman like that?” She lifted her free hand to her heart and tried to steady her breathing. “You would scare the devil.”

There was no time for conversation and after three days of nearly breaking down the door another moment could not be contained. Robert tried to guide Ruth out of the way, but she moved her shoulders in place and would not budge.

“What is it that you wish, my boy?” she inquired with a raised brow.

Trying to reach around her again, he grunted his reply.

“To see my wife! Now if you do not mind, I will need you to step aside.” A foggy haze of mystery had been over this household since he had arrived and no one was willing to confess to him.

Leaning back into the door, she looked up at him with pleading eyes. Ruth was a woman with her own mind and all the guarded sense of a mother hen. No one got to her chicks against her wish.

“I think it is best if you took the young master out for another nature lesson this day. You have been the stimulation that his young mind has needed.” She flattered.

“Another time perhaps.” He shouldered his way around her, but was stopped yet again. He gave a cry of frustration, stumbling back two steps in defeat. “For three days I have waited calmly to see my wife all the while you have told me that she is sleeping, napping, bathing and taking all her meals in her room due to the headache and never have you given me a reason behind what I have heard passed from this door.”

She looked over her nose at him. “And what is that?”

“Pain. I have been tormented by the insistent pain of my wife’s crying.

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