Miss Louisa's Final Waltz (Merry Spinsters, Charming Rogues) by Sofi Laporte

Author:Sofi Laporte [Laporte, Sofi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lapuerta Publishing
Published: 2024-07-09T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

“Impossible,” Louisa breathed. She swayed slightly as a sudden wave of dizziness washed over her. Her cheerful, cheeky Will wasn’t dead. It was inconceivable.

“I’m terribly sorry. I had no idea you didn’t know. It happened so long ago, you know. But for you …”

“It can’t be true. They threw him into prison?”

“Dorchester.”

“But he wasn’t a criminal!” Louisa stood up.

Celeste grimaced. “I’m sure he wasn’t. Someone like Will could never be, for sure. But …” she sighed. “My father had him arrested for burglary and robbery. Apparently, there was evidence. It was the word of a poor boy against that of a lord. I’d like to believe that my father was a good man at heart, and that he always tried to do his best according to his conscience, but sometimes he was unnecessarily hard and stubborn. He truly believed that Will had broken into the house and that he had been caught red-handed.”

“A prisoner. Transported.” Dead. A sob rose inside her, but never found its way out. Instead, she kept staring at Celeste with burning eyes. “They never told me.”

They wouldn’t have, of course.

She’d been packed up and sent back to London. She’d written letters. He’d never answered.

She was told to forget him. She knew they had no future together. A baker and a gentleman’s daughter, an heiress. It was an impossibility. It could never be.

The pain of losing him had been immense. Where her heart had been now lay a gaping hole.

“Promise you’ll wait for me!” he’d cried.

She had done so. She’d waited. Oh, how she’d waited! Until one day, she decided to stop waiting and yielded to her parents’ insistence that she had a Season.

And then the suitors came.

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