Letters to Emily by Stacy Reid

Author:Stacy Reid [Reid, Stacy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: 20th Century, Adult, Erotica, Fiction, Historical, Menage, Paranormal, Romance
ISBN: 9781623008215
Google: o6kHBgAAQBAJ
Publisher: Loose Id, LLC
Published: 2014-12-09T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

19 December 1917

Dearest Emily,

Happy birthday, my love. I wish I was there to celebrate with you. We need such lightness of celebration in the midst of this unceasing despair. I order you not to feel guilty at the lavish party your mother organized for you. You are now twenty-one, and I believe she is proud of the wonderful young lady that you are. I know that we are in wartimes, but I want you to consider the fear that Lady Langford is feeling. Everything she knows has been displaced, and it is all changing. This may be her way of clinging to what she knows and what brings her comfort. I love that you adore the gifts Marcellus has bestowed upon you. Do not think they are lavish. That is his way of letting you know how valued you are. I pray I will be there on your next celebration. I welcome all letters that tell me of the simple things that brighten your day.

Your love, Maxwell Wynwood

Emily entered the library and closed the door with a soft snick. Marcellus stood by the windows, and he did not turn around at her entry. Her tongue felt glued to the roof of her mouth, and the words that barreled from her were not the calm ones she had practiced while walking down the graceful staircase.

“You lied to me!” She clasped her hands tightly in front of her and walked over to him.

“It was necessary.” His cultured tone was cool, autocratic, and unrepentant. He slowly spun to face her, and she glared at him in furious shock. His face was a mask of cold, studied indifference. Where was his remorse?

“Why did you not tell me he was alive?”

“I have no intention of repeating myself, Emmeline. It was necessary. I believe it would be best for Maxwell to explain.”

She took several calming breaths and went to the heart of what devastated her. “You knew he was alive, yet you made love to me. You made me betray him.”

She did not understand his flinch or the look of pain that chased his features.

“How do you expect me to forgive you for this, Marcellus?” Her voice broke. “I died when I was told Maxwell perished, and you knew he lived. How could you have me endure such pain?”

He reached for her, his gaze regretful. “I wanted to tell you, but I couldn’t. I had my reasons, and I hope someday you’ll understand them.”

She jerked away from him. “You knew he lived and still took me! I did not know how to tell him I gave myself to you. I wanted to confide in Max several times, but I couldn’t. It would break him to know you betrayed him so. That I betrayed him.”

She inhaled and met the turbulence of Marcellus’s silver eyes. “You must never touch me again. It was a grave mistake. We will not speak of it. And we must not tell Maxwell. At least not yet.”

Marcellus’s countenance became hard, and his eyes glittered.

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