That Perfect Someone (Malory) by Johanna Lindsey

That Perfect Someone (Malory) by Johanna Lindsey

Author:Johanna Lindsey [Lindsey, Johanna]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Published: 2010-05-20T00:00:00+00:00


Chapter Twenty-six

JULIA WAS IN SHOCK for a good portion of the trip back to London. When she began thinking clearly again, she realized that Lord Allen had no legal right to use a British convict colony in the way he’d described. Men weren’t sent there unless they’d been tried first. So the earl had to have pulled strings to bypass a trial, which was something she could do as well. But the only lords she knew who might be capable of that sort of string pulling were Carol’s father and James Malory, and Carol had mentioned her father was out of the country this month.

So she didn’t even go home first before knocking on the door of the Malory town house. She might have shaken off the shock, but she was still frantic. Time was of the absolute essence if Richard had been apprehended when she’d last seen him, more than a week ago, and the earl had been confident that the convict ship was already at sea. She wanted that ship stopped and Richard removed from it before too much damage was done—to him. But if it had sailed soon after he was placed on it, it could be nearly a week in the lead!

She had hoped to find the Malorys alone so she could put forward her request, but as the butler showed her to the parlor, she could already hear other voices, a few with American accents. She hoped James was at least home and not trying to avoid his wife’s relatives.

But then she heard one voice in particular explaining, “I spent the whole week in that part of the country, searching, questioning people. I stopped Richard’s brother from departing on a trip he’d planned with his son so he could thoroughly search their house and he did. Rich isn’t there. I even checked the nearest jails. And I’ve run out of ideas, Gabby. He’s gone, simply vanished.”

Julia recognized the voice as that of Richard’s friend Ohr. She reached the doorway just as he finished. James was there, expressionless as usual. Georgina and Gabrielle were sitting on the sofa, both looking concerned, though Gabrielle actually looked upset. Drew stood behind the sofa with his hand on his wife’s shoulder. Boyd and Ohr sat on the sofa opposite them.

“We know he wouldn’t hie off without giving us word,” Gabrielle said to Ohr. “So he’s here somewhere, we just have to figure out where. You say he hates his father? That’s why he never spoke of him to us?”

“And he hates his fiancée. It’s no wonder he never wanted to come back here.”

Julia flinched. Apparently Ohr had explained something of her relationship with Richard to the group before she’d walked in on the conversation. But she certainly wasn’t expecting to hear him add, “She needs to be questioned. I’ll leave that to you.”

“You can’t really think—?”

Ohr interrupted Gabrielle, “She was in the area that day, and there was evidence of violence, that he was forcibly removed from the inn. And she has threatened to kill him.



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