Trapped in Time by Denise Daye

Author:Denise Daye
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-01-20T14:00:00+00:00

Lord Blackwell walked Emma to the portrait gallery of Blackwell Castle. It was enormous. She wondered why he hadn’t taken her here earlier when they toured the estate. He stopped in front of a massive portrait of a knight in black armor. It must have been from medieval times, according to the primitive painting techniques used in it.

“This is the first very Blackwell,” he said, full of pride. He took a few steps closer to the painting, which must have been double his size. “Story has it that he killed the dragon that stole the future Queen of England from her king on their wedding night. The king was so grateful to have her returned safely that he swore to make the Blackwells the richest family in the country. Richer than himself.”

Emma took a few steps closer, to examine the painting in more detail. The story was actually quite fascinating. “It seems like the Blackwells make it a habit of saving women in need,” Emma joked.

Blackwell stayed serious. “People in this family have a duty, Emma,” he said, calling her by her first name for the first time.

So, now we’re on a first-name basis. That’s good progress, she thought. William took a step closer and took her hand. Emma felt absolutely nothing.

“The duty to understand that we are better and more important than everybody else on this planet. People need to know who we are; people need to know who to bow to.”

Wait…what? Dear God, did he really just say that? Emma almost stumbled backward in shock at the amount of arrogance she had just witnessed. If he would have spoken of honor, even looking the part…but to say that they were better than everybody else repulsed her. This was precisely the sort of thinking that led to hatred and war—closed minds lacking the ability to feel for others. And in front of her stood the very prototype of ignorance and entitlement. Emma thought about all the times she’d gone through trash cans with her mother looking for food. All the times she had had to wear shoes with holes in them to school, getting laughed at by her classmates. The freedom and relief she had felt when she received her first paycheck as a pharmacy assistant.

How could Blackwell be so far away from her reality…anybody’s reality? Did he not know how many people were starving in the streets of London at this very moment? If she had ever had even the slightest bit of guilt for marrying Blackwell just to leave him high and dry, that feeling was gone. She couldn’t wait to teach this family a lesson, make them the center of a scandal. Emma almost smiled thinking about the gossip that would follow her disappearance into thin air. That would bring them down from their high horses, even if just for a little while. Let them know what it felt like to walk down here, amongst real people. People like Lily, who felt nothing but shame and pain day in and day out.

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