Smitten by the Spinster by Cassidy Cayman

Author:Cassidy Cayman
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Little Black Cat
Published: 2014-09-19T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

The Hollingsborn estate was absolutely lovely, the lake positively glistened in the early afternoon sunlight, and the little rowboats with the brightly dressed guests paddling through the gently rippling water added to the peaceful, charming scene. That Catie could one day be the mistress of this place didn’t cheer her one bit.

Her mood over the last week hadn’t been close to peaceful, and it was a strain to continually act charming to everyone around her. Ever since she’d read the terrible letter from her brother Lachlan, and seen the frightening, confusing instructions hidden under Miss Burnet’s bed, she’d been watching Quinn and her chaperone like a hawk.

The first morning after her spying activities, all the distressing information barely sorted in her mind, she’d decided she needed to pretend she hadn’t learned any of it. She shouldn’t have gone snooping around, and it served her right to be upset by things she didn’t understand, and clearly wasn’t supposed to know about.

But when Miss Burnet and Quinn started whispering to one another, noses practically touching, all while continuously glancing her way, she’d become paranoid and angry. She was done being lied to and kept in the dark. Something was definitely sinister about Miss Burnet’s letter. The intense and specific instructions were very different from the scary mish mash of chants and blood-letting she’d read in Lachlan’s letter but both their intents were the same. To travel to the future.

It was madness, but the fact remained that her brother was gone. Missing. She’d been told he was killed, but now all evidence said that wasn’t the case. The one thing she knew about her oldest brother Lachlan was that he valued responsibility above all else. He constantly berated Quinn about his lack of it, and always tossed in a few sermons to her on the occasions they were together.

If the madness about traveling to the future was true, and it made her dizzy to entertain the notion, then her brother was in trouble. There was nothing short of death that could make Lachlan leave his family and all the people who counted on his decisions, in the hands of Quinn.

Quinn gambled too much, was a bit loose with women, raided around the countryside and forgot birthdays— really the list of reasons not to put him in charge of a henhouse was longer than the road to London. To put him in charge of their clan had to be nothing short of desperation. Something worse than death.

Catie rubbed her sleep deprived eyes when a sudden gust of wind almost knocked her into the lake from the little dock she stood on. She realized she’d been obsessing again, holding her breath and tensing her muscles, probably pulling an unpleasant face on top of it all.

Edwin looked at her quite oddly and she forced herself to relax and smile. She shook out the fishing line she held and tried a tinkling laugh she copied from a popular girl she’d met at a different party a few nights before.

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