For Love Alone (A New Adventure Begins - Star Elite Book 8) by King Rebecca

Author:King, Rebecca [King, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2020-02-14T16:00:00+00:00

Carlotta tried not to allow fear to get the better of her. But it was difficult when every snap of a twig, every rustle of a leaf in the eerily quiet woods threatened to make her jump right out of her skin. She was so cold it was hard to stop her teeth from clattering together. She was shivering so badly she had to cross her arms and cup her elbows, but her fingers were still numb. At some point a stiff breeze had started to build and it snatched what was left of her warmth cruelly away. It was so dark she struggled to see where she was putting her feet, but she refused to stop. Thankfully, she had managed to head in the right direction. The cliff tops had appeared to her right a few minutes ago and were getting steadily closer with each step she took. While she didn’t recognise the area near the house yet, she knew it couldn’t be all that far away.

I must keep putting one foot in front of the other. I will get there. I just need to keep moving, stay out of sight, and everything will be all right.

It had to be because she was well and truly on her own now. She was scared witless and struggled to contain the urge to turn around and run back to Phillip. It was only the thought that even he might betray her and hand her over to her father that stopped her. It forced her to straighten her shoulders and forge ahead when she wanted to just lie down for a while and let the night pass.

‘I have to get to the house to get warm again. I am so cold. There must be clothing in the cupboards. There has to be something I can use.’ Carlotta contemplated the thick covers on the bed she had used and knew that even one of them would stop her freezing to death before she managed to find somewhere else to stay.

‘For now, just focus on getting to the house,’ she hissed before quickly shoving aside the small nagging voice in the back of her mind that asked her what she was going to do when she got to Cliff House because Phillip had the key to the property as well. To try to get her mind off how black it was in the woods she was walking through, Carlotta tried to remember the conversation she had had with Henrietta the day she had arrived at her friend’s house, tired and just as dishevelled as she was now.

‘You must stay here,’ Henrietta had insisted.

‘But I can’t. You have only recently wed. It is too soon for you to entertain. Moreover, here is the first place that father will look for me,’ Carlotta had insisted.

‘We do have a house you might use,’ Henrietta’s husband, Henry, had interrupted. ‘I have just inherited it but haven’t got the time to go there to look over it.’ He had

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