A Lady's Finder by Edie Cay

Author:Edie Cay [Cay, Edie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781734439748
Publisher: Edie Cay

Jack received Lady Agnes’s missive the same day he’d sent his, which made him smile. He sat by the door of the Inn like a fat, broody hen.

Guests came through the door, cheered by his self-satisfied smile, and that made Jack all the happier. He’d already checked with Mrs. Caldwell, who was miraculously available the next day, and all was sliding into place nicely.

Miss Persephone came over and dropped into a chair next to him during a lull in company. She was sweating slightly from the dancing and huffed to catch her breath. The musicians were on a break, filing down to the kitchen to get their dinner and drinks. The next round of guests would likely show in another three-quarters of an hour, coinciding with the ending of dinner parties and the closing of the theatre.

She clinked her goblet of watered wine to his watered beer. “Have you worked out your plan to show yourself worth the trouble?”

Tomorrow he would escort Mrs. Caldwell to the Arthurs’ estate in Marylebone, where he would see Lady Agnes and give a short, sugary speech—he couldn’t think of what it might be, but something, and it would show her that his intentions were pure. That he…well, he…ah, bloody hell. Even in his mind, he choked on the words. He cared about her. Deeply.

“I have a plan—”

“Glad to hear it!” A voice boomed from the door. Lord Haverformore.

“What a prat,” muttered Miss Persephone.

“Good evening, my lord,” Jack said, hoping to not let this arse ruin his mood. And, honestly, for a day, he had forgotten about that other bit. The bit about the art portfolio of a dead man. The bit that would make him able to take care of Lady Agnes in style for at least a little while.

“I take it everything is in motion, as they say?” Lord Haverformore pulled up a chair and joined them. As soon as he sat, Miss Persephone stood.

“If you’ll excuse me,” she said, bobbing down in a genteel curtsy.

Lord Haverformore waved her away, his lusty gaze aimed at Jack. “Enlighten me to your details, please. I want to know my substantial investment isn’t going to waste.”

Jack pasted on a confident smile. “I wouldn’t want to ruin the surprise.”

“I don’t like surprises,” the other man countered, his expression turning to stone.

“I’ve had important conversations with important men. That’s all I am willing to say at the moment. These things are delicate negotiations.”

Lord Haverformore shook a finger in Jack’s face. “I don’t care about conversations or negotiations. I paid you to find something and produce it. So where is it? How close are you to retrieving it?”

“You paid me half,” Jack corrected him. “Half to find an object that has gone unseen for fifteen years, whose owner has been dead at least that long. Requiring time is not unseemly. What has made it suddenly worth finding?”

The finger dropped. “I want it. That’s all you need know.”

“You needn’t worry.”

Lord Haverformore harrumphed and twisted in his chair to gaze at the drink table.

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