Viscount of Vice by Shana Galen

Author:Shana Galen [Galen, Shana]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc
Published: 2014-10-13T16:03:56+00:00

Eight

Robbie held himself together long enough for Flynn to ensure Emma was escorted home and Lady Chesham was introduced to her lost son. His mother had known her younger son at once. For perhaps the first time, Flynn had seen tears stream down her cheeks as she took Robbie into her arms. Robbie wept as well, clutching her tightly. Flynn stood and watched the two of them, feeling awkward and out of place. And then his mother had held her hand out to him, inviting him forward, and he’d joined the circle.

The family was whole again. Flynn felt whole again.

The joyous reunion had been short-lived. Flynn had barely summoned Doctor Emerson when Robbie began to shake from violent tremors. Derring accompanied the doctor and explained to the viscountess how he’d been investigating Satin in London and followed the crime lord to Bath. Once in Bath, Derring had encountered Robbie, and after talking with the man and several paid informants, determined Robbie was very likely Robert Flynn. Robbie’s memory of the brooch his mother had worn when they were children was all the proof Flynn needed.

Flynn offered to attempt to retrace their steps from the night before and lead Derring to Satin’s flash ken, but Derring’s reports put Satin back on the road to London. Derring called Satin an opportunist. With Robbie, Emma, and Flynn out of his reach, he would move on to easier game. Derring intended to follow Satin to London, though there was little likelihood of finding the man among the sprawling masses there. Flynn left his mother to hear the doctor’s report and to thank Derring privately. Doctor Emerson was not optimistic.

The first day Robbie began suffering from chills and nausea, and he could not seem to sit still. After the ordeal of the night before, he should have been exhausted—Flynn was—but Robbie could not sleep. The doctor said insomnia was typical at this stage of treatment.

Now, after days of unrest, Robbie had finally fallen into a fitful sleep, and Flynn had stumbled out of his brother’s room, feeling bleary-eyed and disoriented. He had no idea what day it was or how much time had passed. He only knew his brother was more of a fighter than Flynn ever would have been had they traded places. His mother and a bevy of doctors were within. Flynn’s uncle and several of his cousins had traveled to Bath as soon as his mother sent word. The family had rallied, and Flynn knew his brother was in good hands.

He could finally take care of the one item that had been on his mind from the moment he’d stepped through his mother’s door—making Emma his wife. On the way to his room, Flynn asked a footman for the day and time and was shocked to learn two days had passed. He cursed and had to restrain himself from leaving that instant. He hadn’t wanted Emma to suffer any repercussions from the night she was abducted. But instead of preventing them, instead of protecting her, he’d bloody well left her to fend for herself for two days.

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