Too Sinful to Deny (Gothic Love Stories Book 2) by Erica Ridley

Author:Erica Ridley [Ridley, Erica]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: WebMotion
Published: 2019-08-08T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 25

The inexorable rising of the sun didn’t calm the anxiety itching beneath Susan’s skin. She sat at her escritoire, scratching a fingernail against the scarred wood. Was Mr. Bothwick all right? He had protected her. Kept her from being discovered. Should she have stayed with him?

Although dressed, coiffed, and breakfasted, she couldn’t quite work up the nerve to exit her bedchamber to find out. Particularly if this time she really would run into Mr. Bothwick’s ghost. She shivered.

Had the still-living Mr. Bothwick been hurt? Had he been caught? Had he—Susan’s spine snapped up straight—had he been in league with whoever belonged to those footsteps, and simply took advantage of an opportunity to send a frightened young lady back up to her room? She frowned. What had he been doing there, anyway?

Her forehead thunked forward onto the hard surface of the escritoire. Of course.

She was so slow sometimes. Hadn’t she just decided (all right, re-decided) that he wasn’t to be trusted? Just because he’d saved her life didn’t mean he hadn’t taken someone else’s.

Hadn’t she just wondered if he were not in fact responsible for his dead brother’s... deadness? Mr. Bothwick had just happened to show up in the rock garden, alone, in the middle of the night, directly following her mention of a third grave. Which meant—whether he was in collusion with the others or not—he had definitely not been colluding with her.

Next weekend could not come soon enough. She had to get out of this town while she still could.

Susan snatched a sheet of parchment from a yellowed pile and dipped a pen in a clotted inkwell. Although they still hadn’t deigned to reply to her previous missive, her first letter was going straight to her parents.

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