A Little Christmas by Gail Ranstrom

Author:Gail Ranstrom
Language: ron
Format: mobi
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

“Then you must widen your circle of acquaintances, Selwick.”

“I think I ought to introduce you to my stepsisters. They could use a bit of coaching in congeniality.”

“I am sure you exaggerate. I am quite ordinary.”

Lord! How could she look in the mirror and ever think herself ordinary? How could she make him smile every time he saw her if she were unpleasant? He shook his head. “Miss Sophia, my stepsisters never miss an opportunity to make mountains from molehills. Catastrophe is their constant companion. And, since my father died, they and my stepmother expect me to smooth every bump in the road for them. They have quite put me off families altogether.”

He expected sympathy, but she smiled instead. “Do you give them your attention when they do not have a disaster?”

“I have found my own lodgings to avoid their crises.”

“Has that had the desired effect?”

He chortled. “Not in the least. They merely send for me.”

“Do you visit them regularly when there is not a crisis?”

He reached for the sherry bottle.

“Ah, I thought so,” she said. “I suspect their crises are manufactured to claim your attention.”

That notion intrigued him. “Why do you think so?”

“Because they have lost everything but you. Twice, apparently. Their father and husband, then their second father and husband. The world must seem a very precarious place to them. They must be feeling uncertain and a bit frightened.”

Sebastian wanted to contradict her, but she had given him something to think about, a new way of looking at his contentious family. Perhaps they had needed him more than he had thought, but in a different way.

“Have they come out yet?” Miss Sophia asked as she nibbled a crust of bread.

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