Montgomery 10 - The Duchess by Jude Deveraux

Author:Jude Deveraux [Deveraux, Jude]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: ePub Bud (www.epubbud.com)
Published: 2011-09-14T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

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Harry was sleeping so soundly that Trevelyan had to shake him awake. Harry rolled over, looked at his brother in disgust, then turned away and closed his eyes again.

"I want to talk to you," Trevelyan said.

"Do you never sleep?"

"Not if I can avoid it." When Harry didn't bother to open his eyes again and looked as though he were going back to sleep, Trevelyan pushed him on the shoulder again. "I'm not leaving."

Harry grimaced and slowly sat up. "For someone who's supposed to be in hiding you do get around. What's wrong now?"

"What happened between Claire and your mother today?"

At that Harry opened his eyes wide. There was genuine puzzlement on his face. "Nothing unusual. Claire said she wanted to meet Mother and she did. They had tea together."

Trevelyan looked at his brother for a long while. Trevelyan was always amazed when people didn't see what was going on around them. No doubt Harry thought that his mother and his fiancée had had a lovely tea together. Harry had probably not even realized Claire had left the room, as MacTarvit said, in a state of terror.

"What has Claire been telling you?" Harry asked.

"I haven't seen her."

Harry smiled at that. He was glad his little American heiress wasn't spending her time with his older brother. "Then how do you know she has complaints?"

"I have heard things."

Harry yawned. Trevelyan's constant air of mystery might interest the rest of the world but it merely bored him. "If that's all you have to say, then I'd like to go back to sleep."

"After you marry Claire are you going to send… her" —he said the word with contempt—"to the dower house?"

"I don't know why you persist in believing that our mother is a dragon. She is a simple, sweet woman and always has been. If you'd just make some effort to get to know her, you'd find that out. As for your question, no, Mother is not going to move to the dower house. I think it's better that she stay here where I can be near her. She is crippled, as you well know."

"She means to stay here where she can rule the house and Leatrice."

In spite of himself, Harry was beginning to wake up. His brother could infuriate the devil. "Mother is not a monster. She loves her daughter and wants to spend time with her. Is that so wrong? Lee is perfectly happy."

"Is that your opinion or Lee's? How long has it been since you spoke to your sister?"

"A great deal less time than it's been since you spoke to her," Harry shot back. "I'd like to know who you think you are to come in here and try to change everything. You leave when you're a child, then run off from Grandfather and no one sees you for years, and now you come back here and expect to give everyone orders. If you want to do that then you're going to have to step forward and declare yourself." Trevelyan sat on a tall chair by the bed and didn't say a word.

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