Venetian Sunshine (Tales from the Grand Tour Book 5) by Merry Farmer

Author:Merry Farmer [Farmer, Merry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-06-04T16:00:00+00:00

Charlotte’s heart felt as heavy as a lodestone in her chest as she hurried through the streets of Castello. Her nerves bristled, knowing how dangerous her current mission was. She held Lord Addlebury’s coin in her hand, not trusting it to the pocket of her skirt when so much was at stake. She’d spent days poring over the symbols the coin contained. If she could just figure out what the symbols meant, perhaps she could be of some use to the McGovern family.

Not that she thought they needed her help, exactly. But the more she tried to settle her mind to the idea of letting go of Trent and putting him out of her thoughts forever, the harder it became to stop thinking about him or the danger she felt, with every fiber of her being, he and his family were in. She might not be able to love him the way she wanted to, but if she figured things out, she could keep him safe.

It just so happened that the only way she could think of to learn more about the coin and keep Trent safe meant that she had to put herself in danger.

The neighborhood where her mother’s kin lived was darker than the part of Venice where she lived, though it was surprisingly close to her flat. It wasn’t so much that she feared being robbed or harassed as she gathered her courage and approached the entry to the courtyard where her relatives’ houses stood. Those relatives refused to claim her as one of their own, though. They’d warned her several times not to so much as look at them as they passed on the street. It was all a punishment for her mother, who dared to leave her family out of love for an Englishman, but the warning extended to Charlotte as well.

Her fears seemed to be founded as she approached the gate that lead into the courtyard. A middle-aged man who she was fairly certain was her Uncle David, though her mother had never confirmed it, stood straight from where he had been leaning against the wall beside the gate at her approach.

“What do you want?” he asked with a scowl.

“Please,” Charlotte said, keeping her head lowered. “I need your help.”

“My help?” David grinned as though she were a weak-headed child.

“Yes.” Charlotte summoned her courage and showed David the coin.

David took an immediate interest, avarice glowing in his eyes. “What’s this then?” His smile grew, and he snatched at the coin.

Charlotte held it out of his reach. “It’s not currency. It’s a cipher. I need to know what language the symbols are.”

“It looks like silver to me,” David said. “Give it here.” He held out his hand.

Charlotte clutched the coin in her fist, wariness spreading through her gut. It was a bad idea to come to her mother’s family after all. “If I give it to you, you’ll only keep it.”

“Why would you say a thing like that?” David laughed.

“Because she knows you better than you think,” an older woman said, stepping out of the doorway several yards down from the gate.

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