True Love by Jude Deveraux

Author:Jude Deveraux [Deveraux, Jude]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2013-07-08T16:00:00+00:00

Jared went down the old stairs, and as he’d done many times, he vowed to run an electric cord up the wall and put in lights. It was pitch-dark in the downward tunnel and cobwebs were all over him.

He was looking forward to seeing Ken. It had been months since Aunt Addy’s funeral, when they’d last seen each other. Of course there was that call when Ken had blasted Jared within an inch of his life. But he was used to that. When they’d first met, Ken had been so angry at the world that he could only talk in loud bursts. But back then, Jared wouldn’t listen to anything said in a normal tone.

Jared’s big concern was Alix. How was she going to take finding out that her father had also spent so much time on Nantucket and concealed it from her?

The stairs ended in the front parlor, behind what appeared to be paneling—and yet again he doubted the family chamber pot story. The maid could have shown up in the midst of a tea party. He’d have to ask his grandfather for the truth—which he had no hope of getting.

Jared wasn’t surprised to see Ken standing in the room waiting for him. Many years ago the two men had repaired the old stairs. As they had been tearing out the dry-rotted treads, Ken said, “Don’t want Addy’s ghost lover to hurt himself, do we?”

At the time, Jared had looked at him sharply, wondering what he knew, but Ken had only been making a joke.

Now there was a second of hesitation between them because it was obvious that Ken knew where Jared had been. Ken was the first to react as he opened his arms and Jared went to him. He was so grateful that Ken wasn’t angry that the reunion was like a son coming home from war. They held on to each other for a long moment.

“Come on,” Ken said, his arm still around Jared’s shoulders, “let’s sit down. I made coffee and I brought doughnuts from Downyflake.”

Jared had never been one to postpone bad news, so he said, “You know where I was?” It was better to get this about him and Alix out in the open.

“I always believed that you and my daughter would like each other.”

Jared’s smile showed his relief. It would have been bad if Ken disliked the idea of his precious Alix hooking up with a man who used to be less than an upstanding citizen. Forget all the success he’d had since then. Jared knew that Ken saw inside him.

The pretty little front parlor was where the good furniture was, including several pieces that his grandfather had sent back on the ship with his brother. After that time, no more children in the family were given his name, as a lot of Nantucketers were angry that Caleb Kingsley, in his rush to get home, had gone into dangerous waters and sunk the ship. Family, friends, and crew had gone down with him.

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