The Secret Desires of a Governess by Tiffany Clare

Author:Tiffany Clare [Clare, Tiffany]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780312381844
Google: 86wE45jFPNkC
Amazon: 0312381840
Published: 2012-03-25T22:00:00+00:00

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Chapter 14

When winter thawed and spring waned into summer a lone guard, near to his death with a knife wound that had festered at his chest, found his way back to his king with word of the prince on his dying breath.

`—The Dragon of Brahmors

After installing Miss Hallaway in the parlor, Elliott went in search of his son. The boy had disappeared when it had become apparent that the governess was indisposed in the first hours of the day. But, vexing and stubborn as ever, Miss Hallaway had insisted on him retrieving Jacob and bringing him to her.

Damnable woman. She’d crawled right under his skin.

She made him want something that could never be his.

Namely her. She was his son’s governess. She was under his employ and protection.

He couldn’t offer her marriage as was the right thing to do after the intimacies they’d shared. No. Wright men had no luck where women were concerned.

And he could admit, he liked Miss Hallaway far too much to put her in the same predicament as the women who’d been mistress of the castle as far back as his great-grandmother’s time. All had died too young. None had been happy. Most had displayed some type of madness before their death.

Yet he couldn’t bring their dalliance to an end. Not yet.

Was this the first of many accidents to come? His wife had met with similar events on many occasions, but he’d always thought them of her own making and imagination.

None of her accidents were so dire as being pushed from the parapet wall.

It was frustrating that he hadn’t found evidence of an intruder in the castle. Something seemed off about this morning.

But who would wish Miss Hallaway harm? Could it be someone from her past? Could some unsavory character have followed her here? Was that why she’d chosen a place so far from everything and everyone she knew?

Well, damned if he knew what in hell was going on.

He’d locked all the passageway doors as he’d walked the grounds and tunnels. They were now barred from everyone without a key, and he was the only one who held those particular keys. Access to those tunnels wouldn’t matter to anyone living in the castle, since they rarely made use of the older passageways.

Whoever the intruder was, they had obviously used those old narrow tunnels. There was no other way to get up to the parapet wall undetected. Although the hour had been early, the sun yet to rise . . . Who was to say the intruder hadn’t come through any of the three gates leading into the castle?

Perhaps it would be safer to send Miss Hallaway to another posting or back to her sisters.

Whom would it be safer for, though? Him? Jacob? The rest of the staff who hadn’t an inkling as to what had transpired this morning?

Despite the desire he felt for her, he actually wanted to spend time with her just for the sake of being in her company. And that put him in a damnable spot.

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