Legacy Redeemed by Grayson Aubrey

Author:Grayson, Aubrey
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-11-05T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

Cinderella had just finished marrying her sisters off to noble lords when Susannah’s reading was interrupted by the arrival of yet another small boy, this one even younger than Gabriel. Also, this one was screaming Gabriel’s name at the top of his lungs and running around the library as though he were out of doors.

“Charlie! Charlie! You’re here!” Gabriel shrieked back, sliding off of Susannah’s lap and hopping up and down. “Susannah, it’s Charlie! He’s my cousin! Charlie, look. It’s Susannah. She’s been reading to me!”

Charlie skidded to a halt in front of them and peered up at Susannah. Then apparently remembering his manners, he bent into a low bow. “A pleasure to make your acquaintance, Miss Susannah,” his small voice piped up to her.

She dipped into a curtsy. “And a pleasure to meet you as well, Master Charlie. Any friend of Gabriel’s is a friend of mine.” She smiled at the boy, despite having a foreboding that his appearance meant that she would soon have an awkward encounter with his parents. Whoever they were.

But she didn’t have to wonder for long. The butler, Stokes, came to claim the children and send them to the nursery. Gabriel gave a swift hug to Susannah’s knees and thanked her for reading before he scurried off. She waved in the wake of him and discovered she was still holding on to the chapbook. She dropped it awkwardly onto the sofa.

Stokes was waiting for her. She smiled at him and raised her eyebrows as she walked toward him. “It seems a good time to take my leave, doesn’t it?”

He had just opened his mouth, presumably to agree with her, when an elegant woman sailed up behind him in the corridor. “I should say not! If you take your leave now, how will I ever pepper you with questions?”

Not knowing what to say to that, Susannah stood frozen in place, just an arm’s length from the door, mouth agape, feeling very much like a deer hiding from the huntsman.

Now Nick had joined the party standing in the corridor. “Alice, leave the poor girl alone. She is simply a neighbor that Gabriel is fond of.”

Relief gave new life to Susannah’s limbs. She breathed deeply and smiled her agreement.

But the elegant blonde raised a single eyebrow and looked rather archly at Nick. “Gabriel? Hmmm.” Then she turned her wide smile onto Susannah and said, “I am Alice, Nick’s sister-in-law. And you are…”

Susannah stammered. She actually stammered. “I am Susannah Stanhope. I am a guest of the vicar.”

Alice peered briefly around the room and said, “There’s no place good to sit and talk in the library. Please come with me into the drawing room. It is so nice to come upon another young lady!”

Now Stokes was caught in that smile. “Would you be so kind as to bring tea to the drawing room?”

Stokes stammered back his reply, making Susannah grateful she was not the only one so affected. “Y-yes, Lady Weston.”

Lady Weston. Of course it had to be Lady Weston.

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