What Remains of Heaven by Harris C. S

Author:Harris, C. S. [Harris, C. S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, Historical, Romance, Crime
ISBN: 9781101151303
Goodreads: 9165555
Publisher: New American Library
Published: 2009-10-14T07:00:00+00:00

Sebastian looked up. But the old man had gone.

Hendon sat with his chin propped on one fist, the scowl on his face deepening as he studied the chessboard before him.

“There is a way,” said Sebastian.

Hendon raised his brilliant blue eyes to his son’s face. “Don’t tell me that.”

Sebastian settled deeper into his seat and crossed his outstretched boots at the ankles. “It’s what you used to tell me.”

They were in the library of the vast St. Cyr townhouse on Grosvenor Square. It had become their habit of late to meet in the afternoons when both were free for a game of chess, as they had done so often when Sebastian was a boy. A warm breeze billowed the curtain at the open window, bringing them the clip-clop of horses’ hooves and the laughter of children at play in the square.

“I used to tell you that when you were four. By the time you were five, you were wiping the board with what was left of my pride.”

Sebastian smiled, but said nothing.

Hendon leaned forward to nudge his queen. “Take that.”

“There was a way,” said Sebastian, carefully relocating his knight. “But that wasn’t it. Checkmate.”

“Hell and the devil confound it,” said Hendon, but softly, as a man acknowledging the inevitable.

A knock sounded at the front door. A moment later, a footman appeared with a note on a tray.

“Message for Viscount Devlin, my lord. From Bow Street.”

Hendon let out a disapproving huff. Like Kat, he disliked his son’s involvement in cases of murder, only for a different reason. He simply found such activities sordid and unseemly. But since Sebastian’s involvement in this particular case had come about on the intervention of Hendon’s own sister, he really couldn’t say anything.

“Good God,” said Hendon, watching Sebastian’s face as he broke the seal and glanced through the magistrate’s hurried scrawl. “Not another murder?”

Sebastian pushed to his feet. “I’m afraid so.”

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