The Pursuits of Lord Kit Cavanaugh by Stephanie Laurens

Author:Stephanie Laurens
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2019-02-11T16:21:56+00:00

CHAPTER 11

The following afternoon, Kit tracked Sylvia to the school. He’d spent half the night plotting and planning and had settled on a strategy and a course of action. After spending most of the day at the workshop, mentally rehearsing his approach while working alongside Wayland and the men, he’d set off for Sylvia’s office, girded his loins, and knocked on the door, only to discover she wasn’t there.

As he climbed the school steps, he heard her voice, and a curious mix of trepidation and anticipation slid through him. He couldn’t recall feeling the like for more than a decade, not since he’d been a wet-behind-the-ears youth who’d just come on the town.

And even then...

Then, the outcome hadn’t really mattered.

Now, it did.

He stood back to allow two boys to barrel through the door, then ducked inside before the next group clogged the entry.

To one side, Sylvia and Miss Meggs were discussing something in some book.

When they looked up, smiles lighting both their faces, he quashed his instinctive impulse to cross to them—to Sylvia—and, instead, raised a hand in a salute and continued down the hall to where Cross and Jellicoe had just dismissed the older lads and now stood comparing notes.

The teachers saw Kit coming and turned to greet him.

He had his excuses for calling polished and ready; he halted before the pair and, after exchanging nods, said, “I came to see how Ned was today—whether he’d heard his father’s good news and, if so, how he was taking it.”

Both Cross’s and Jellicoe’s faces creased with smiles.

“He’s a different lad,” Cross said. “It’s as if a spark that should have been glowing inside him all this time has ignited again.”

Jellicoe nodded. “That’s not a bad description. From what I overheard him telling the other lads at lunchtime, his father called at his aunt’s house last night and told Ned of his new job and that you’d offered to stand guarantor for him renting another place to live, and that once that was done, Ned could live with him again.”

“A transformation is the only way to describe it,” Cross averred. “We’d put Ned down as naturally quiet, but it seems that’s not the case at all.”

Jellicoe’s lips twitched. “No, indeed, but along with his sudden liveliness has come a renewed determination to succeed with his lessons. Whether his father actually said so or if Ned is reading between the lines, it seems he’s realized that his father might end quite proud of him for his learning.”

“And your suggestion of Ned going to the workshop after school was inspired,” Cross said. “He used to be one of the dawdlers, but today, he was out of here like a shot the instant we ended the last lesson.”

Jellicoe chuckled. “The one drawback I foresee to your plan is that you might well find you have a small platoon of boys hovering about your workshop door and goggling at your men.”

Kit grinned. “I’m sure the men will take that in stride. And if they don’t, I can rely on my secretary, Miss Petty, to sort the boys out.

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