The Carhart Series by Courtney Milan

Author:Courtney Milan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC

IT TOOK GARETH A FRUSTRATING forty-six hours to travel from Bristol to London. Despite his dust, he didn’t stop by his home to change. Instead, he ordered his driver to go directly to Jenny’s house. A thousand tremulous wings flapped in his chest as he jumped from the carriage. He banged on her door with his fist.

No answer.

“Jenny,” he called. “Jenny, are you there? Jenny!”

No answer.

Perhaps she had gone shopping. Perhaps—he looked at the door more carefully—damn it. She hadn’t removed the knocker from her door because she was out buying gloves. As if to underscore this point, the door above his head opened.

“You looking for Madame Esmerelda?”

Gareth whirled around and craned his neck upward. A woman stood behind another door. “Where is she?”

“She left. Took all her things, she did. Flat’s empty—and I should know, ’cause I wanted to pick through what she’d left behind, and there were none of it.”

“Well, where did she go?”

The woman shrugged. “She’s a fortuneteller, ain’t she? Who knows where she went?”

A cold hand caressed Gareth’s heart. “But she left a message for me, didn’t she?”

The woman shrugged apathetically. “I can’t say as she did. If you’re wanting your fortune told, I imagine I could make shift. She told me how it were done the once.”

A second roaring sounded in his ears. He’d realized Jenny was too good for him. He hadn’t expected her to discover it, too. Foolishly, he’d hoped she would remain so deluded as to welcome his suit. But why should she sit at home? Jenny didn’t mope. She acted.

What an idiot he was. She was the irreplaceable one. She could have any man she wanted. She wouldn’t even have to lie to get a quarter of them.

“Did she leave a message for anyone?”

The woman peered down at him craftily. “Well, I suppose I could ask the spirits—”

“The spirits can go hang,” Gareth muttered, and turned savagely on his heel.

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