Reinventing Miss Bluebeard by Minda Webber

Author:Minda Webber
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, paranormal, england, historical, werewolves, london, pirates, psychiatrist, leprechaun, bluebeard, madcap, boroughs publishing group, minda webber, invented husband, paranormal insane asylum, paranormal patients
Publisher: Boroughs Publishing Group

Chapter Fifteen

Mad About You, Mad at You

The night sky deepened to a dense black, with light from only a scattering of stars and the glow of the moon. As Eve made her way around and visited with her patients, she searched earnestly for any signs of mania or violent behavior. Instead she found laughter, betting, and light flirtations, and only discontented grumbling from those who usually were of a stern and unhappy nature. Relaxing her vigil, she sat down upon a marble bench beneath two massive oaks. A half dozen lanterns above her lighted the trees, while she watched the picnic in progress. She shivered slightly, though she did not know whether from the cooling night breeze or the acknowledgment that she had met a worthy and sly foe in Adam.

“I have more important things to think about than him,” she muttered. “Like Mr. Carlen.”

Eve was happy to note that for once the gargoyle wasn’t in his catatonic state. Although he was a cold man at the best of times—rather stone-faced and denigrating—tonight he was alert, and even now was speaking warmly with Major Gallant. Their conversation was for the common good, since he was keeping the major occupied. Major Gallant hadn’t yet charged around the garden. Rather, he was standing with his hand in his jacket, wearing his ridiculous hat.

To Eve’s right, Mrs. Monkfort was surveying the ground around her and muttering about dirt while wringing her hands. Hugo was tossing marbles in the air nearby, while the wily Fester was snatching at one or two of his marbles and grumbling. Something about a black witch who was in league with the House of Lords? Eve thought she heard Fester remark that the witch had cursed the marbles.

Eve shook her head. Searching for the why and how a patient slipped away into a netherworld could be likened to searching for a hidden treasure, with only an aging map with missing pieces to guide the way. And yet, the search for this buried treasure was probably one of the most important searches in the world, as well as being one of the hardest and most frustrating.

Watching Eve from the shadows, Adam smiled faintly. The antics all around faded into the background. He felt at peace, here, because there was an odd kindness, and comradeship as well. Dedicated in his youth to overcoming betrayal and obtaining worldly goods, he had forgotten the wealth of home and hearth. The peaceful contentment of knowing a loving household had faded into a vague memory.

But in the blink of an eye his world had changed. Strange that he would find happiness here, of all places: yet he had known the moment he had seen her, just as his father had known the moment he spied Adam’s mother.

Like his grandfather before him, and his great-grandfather before. All those men had felt something upon meeting the only female in the world for them. It was bred into Adam’s bones, the heritage of all Hawkmore men to instinctively know their mate.

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