Trevega House by Will North

Author:Will North [North, Will]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Northstar Editions
Published: 2017-07-17T16:00:00+00:00

“ALL RIGHT,” SIR Michael confessed when they’d finished lunch. He’d dismissed his driver. “I happened to be down here on another assignment and I thought I’d check on this restoration project in which I’ve invested so much. I know about the fire and whatnot but this young lady’s accident troubled me.”

“It wasn’t an accident. I felt it coming,” Lee said. She was sitting next to him and, under the table, holding his hand. She didn’t know why.

“If so, young lady, that is most remarkable and wondrous. Are you a bit like Jamie’s lady, Flora? She has many skills, I understand.”

“I’m not like Flora. She’s a witch. I’m different; I sense things others don’t.” She looked away from the old man. “It’s…it’s hard to explain, but Flora understands.”

“You needn’t try to explain,” he said, squeezing her hand. “We are all the richer for your gift, aren’t we?” he said, looking at the rest.

“We most certainly are…” Nicola said, beaming.

“Now, as the financier of all the work allegedly going on here, I should like a tour, Andrew and Jamie, if you have something to show…and if this young lady beside me might pardon me for leaving.”

Lee tilted her head and squinted at the old man.

“I help them, too, you know. I tell them where to put the stones.”

“Do you indeed?”

“She does, sir; has the knack, the vision,” Jamie said.

“But that’s hardly a lady’s job…”

“Why not?” Lee demanded.

“I wouldn’t go there, Michael, you’ll only lose,” Andrew said, laughing.

“Oh, go on then, you three,” Nicola said. “Lee and I will clean up after you, as we women so often must….”

As they left, Lee looked at Nicola as if she’d lost her mind.

“Look,” Nicola explained, “sometimes men have things they need to talk about alone, just like we girls do. Just my instinct in this case. Let’s give them a chance.”

“What is he up to, Nicky?”

“Who?”

“That Sir Michael.”

“Haven’t a clue, sweetie. I never have. The man’s a walking mystery. But I know enough to trust him. You should, too. He’s the closest thing I’ve ever had to a loving father. He loves us, all of us. He gave us this estate to look after. He gave you this safe home, too. That’s enough for me. How about you?”

“Yeah, I guess.”

The girl looked out the kitchen window and watched them leave in the battered Land Rover. “Is he like my step-grandfather or something?”

“If you’d let him be I suspect that would thrill him down to his toes.”

Lee considered. She was not one for snap judgments. “Okay, I’ll give that a go. He’s important, isn’t he?”

“What makes you think that?”

Lee made a face. “Fancy clothes, police driver, owns this place and who knows what else? Come on…”

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