Defeating the System by E.V. Darcy

Defeating the System by E.V. Darcy

Author:E.V. Darcy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Darcy's Royal Library


CHAPTER TEN

Hattie gave a little frustrated grunt as she tried to pull the drawer out further, but the damn thing was stuck. She glanced over her shoulder to where Roman sat, still surrounded by a pile of lever arch files, and briefly considered asking for his help. However, the look of concentration on his face made her think again. Clearly whatever it was he was reading was far more interesting than grocery shopping receipts or an invoice for yet another Ferrari Jensen has stored away.

With a disgruntled sigh, she rattled the cabinet one more time before standing on her tiptoes to reach over the top of the drawer and into its inky dark depths, hidden away behind the receipt filled folders.

She’d have to take the lot out and—

‘What the—?’ she muttered as her hand connected with the back of the cabinet far sooner than she had expected. She tapped her knuckles against it, hearing the dull thud of thick plastic rather than the tinny ring of metal that she expected.

Huffing and puffing she pushed the plastic until the top gave way, a solid piece of black acrylic pivoting in the middle to reveal—

Hattie tried to stand en pointe, but her earlier ankle injury put stop to that the moment she attempted such a feat. Wincing and grumbling all the more as she put all her weight on her good foot and resorted to blindly feeling around the drawer. Her hand disappeared under the thick, dark plastic and she prayed no spiders or other creepy crawlies had set up home within the hidden compartment.

If there were any such creatures cowering from her intrusion, she didn’t get a chance to meet them as her fingers brushed along what felt like… books?

She narrowed her eyes as her fingers continued tracing the leather spines of what had to be at least a half dozen thin tomes. They had soft and supple bindings, more notebook-esq than the leather hardbacks on the shelves above the filing cabinets. She wiggled one of them free and triumphantly pulled it from its confines. Perhaps these would be whatever it was Gerald Tyrrell had been willing to kill his own children for.

When Hattie finally saw it, she noted that it was indeed just a small, thin, leather-bound notebook; one you could buy from most upper-end book shops that were dotted throughout the city. She recognised it as one she’d seen Jensen with quite often at university.

Settling herself back on her feet, she flipped through the pages, choosing to stop on a random one, curious as to what Jensen might have used the books for and why they were hidden as they were.

A date at the top of the page told her it was from almost a year ago. Her eyes skimmed the rest of the page before darting back to the top to take in what she was reading in earnest.

So, Lady Victoria is engaged. Finally! That means Hattie herself will now be free to marry.

Hattie’s brow furrowed in confusion at the simple entrance in what appeared to be a diary or journal of some kind.



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