What the Fates Decree: The Caversham Chronicles-The Titans of the Revolution by Sandy Raven

Author:Sandy Raven
Language: eng
Format: epub

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THE END

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CHAPTER ONE

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October, 1842, Scottish Lowlands

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Miss Penelope Fenwick, daughter and only child of the Viscount and Viscountess Huddleston, fought the rising panic inside as she held the door to her room open for her friend to enter.

“Well… If that wasn’t the most awkward welcome we’ve ever received, I don’t know what is,” Lady Charlotte Brightman, only daughter of the Earl of Camden whispered as she swept into Penelope’s rooms. “Emphasis on awkward.”

Penelope nodded in agreement. Placing a finger over her closed lips, she shut the door to her suite after allowing entrance to one of her two best friends in the entire world. She then pressed her hand to her belly, hoping to stop the butterflies from bursting forth. Penny never showed nerves on the outside, she kept them bottled within, releasing her anxieties in the privacy of her own bedchamber. It was something she’d had to learn early in her life. If her mother saw her upset, she would then become worried for her. And her mother had enough of her own worries with Penny’s father off somewhere in the northern territories of India. Penny didn’t want to add to her mother’s concerns.

Even before Penelope could reply, a second knock, just moments from the first, brought their friend Isabel into the room.

“I rushed right over after tossing my hat on the bed,” Lady Isabel Halden whispered. “I can’t believe what we just heard.”

“Same here” said Charlotte, as she gave Penelope an expectant gaze. “What on earth is going on?”

“You’re asking me as if I know.” Penelope felt herself trembling. “My great aunt just said that my cousin is not engaged to marry anyone, much less Mr. Santiago. But I read the letter Lady Edgar sent to my mother. She is planning to announce the betrothal during this house party, and…”

“Since they aren’t here there is no way of asking is there?” Charlotte said.

“If there’s been a breakup Miss Olivia might not wish to talk about it,” Isabel offered. “It would be nice if we could discover what happened without appearing the worst sort of gossips.”

“No,” Penny whispered, trying to regain what strength she thought she had before she arrived at castle Rathcavan a mere hour ago. One short conversation with Lady Adina had her belly tumbling like a circus performer inside her. “As much as I may have wished at one time that Mr. Santiago realized his folly, begged my forgiveness, and asked my father for my hand in marriage, the man has not contacted me in any way, for over a year.”

“Well, the good thing is he likely won’t be a guest at this house party because of this new development.”

Penny went to the window, and pulled back the curtain so as to look at her view. Rolling hills, lush and green, spread out before her far off into the distance.

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