His Bewitching Jewel by Marly Mathews

Author:Marly Mathews
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Marly Mathews
Published: 2015-10-18T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Finn feared he would lose Ruby.

He laid awake in his bed, listening to the clock as it went tick tock, tick tock. It was well after midnight now. Groaning, he sat up, and raked his hand through his hair. Reaching for his dressing gown, he left his bedchamber, and stood outside in the hallway, staring at a portrait of a dead ancestor.

It was a calm night, and he hadn’t heard any unexplainable noises since the maid had screamed. Ruby was frightened, and rightfully so—but how could he explain what the maid had seen to her? How could he tell her the terrible truth?

The only reason he kept his servants, was because he paid unusually high wages. If he didn’t pay so well, they would have been gone not long after he had hired them. Mrs. Teague might have remained, as he doubted that she would have been able to find suitable employment elsewhere, given her irascible behaviour, and he had heard that her husband had left her in rather poor financial straits, and for that much, she had his sympathy.

He used every ounce of his willpower to keep himself from going to Ruby, and explaining everything to her, and praying that somehow she would understand.

The question was, how much information was too much? Would she even believe him, or would she be so frightened that he would scare her into fleeing this place?

“What do I do?” he asked, as desperation clawed at him, almost as if he expected the portrait to answer him. Sighing, mournfully, he went back to his bedchamber, and tossed and turned in his bed, until blissfully, sleep claimed him.

*****

The next morning, Ruby awoke refreshed, and with a new sense of purpose in her life. She wanted to start anew, and give her life her a fresh chance at succeeding. The night before, she had dreamt of her father, and the lovely life they had once led. To remember him as he had been with her, and seeing her uncle in her dreams with them had given her a renewed purpose in her life. It had made her realize that her work with Lady Miranda and Lady Cordelia was important. If she left now, the small progress that Lady Cordelia had made might go up in smoke. Somehow, she had to help heal Lady Cordelia enough so she could be a part of her uncle’s life. She couldn’t remain afraid of him forever. It wasn’t fair to him, and it wasn’t fair to her.

She threw back her bedclothes, and climbed out of bed. Her eyes immediately went to the beautiful window. Padding over to it, she opened the curtains, and looked out at the misty morning.

Sighing, she turned back to the round table and chairs in her bedchamber, and looked with apprehension at the tray of food there. There was a cup of steaming hot chocolate, and with the hot chocolate was a plateful of ginger biscuits. She hadn’t noticed them before on her way to open the curtains.

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