When the Viscount Wanted Me by Lydia Lloyd

Author:Lydia Lloyd
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance
Publisher: The Tule Publishing Group, LLC
Published: 2023-10-19T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

When Henrietta had returned from her outing with Cassandra and Mrs. Seymour, she hadn’t been at all sure of what she would do next. While she affected calm and happiness with her best friend and her mother on her ride back, she had felt outside of herself.

Therefore, when she had reentered Breminster House, she hadn’t known what to do with her alienation or her bone-deep sadness. When she passed through the entryway, the portrait of her father caught her eye. In this portrait, he looked handsome and relatively happy. Here, he was young and whole. Arrogant, too. You could see it in the set of his mouth. It was the same expression that John got when he knew he was right. Or, she hated to admit, that her mouth curled into when she knew something was a bad idea and she had decided to do it anyway. In short, in the picture, her father looked certain that his story would, somehow, come out right in the end.

She had never known her father when he looked like that. Her brother had. But Henrietta had only met the man after he had lost Mary Forster for good. When he had only Henrietta to remind him of his biggest mistake.

As she gazed at her father, another thought came to her mind. John had shown her the letter he had written to his son and heir to explain her parentage. He had written the words: Henrietta deserves to know that she has one parent living.

Her father had loved Mary Forster with his whole being. He had ruined John’s mother and their family over it. He had wanted her until the day he died. And he had wanted Henrietta to know her. Even though she had never known her father when he was young and arrogant, she had spent plenty of time with the man he had become. He had been a melancholy man but not a bad one. He had always treated her with kindness. He had loved her.

Perhaps, Henrietta had thought, she needed to meet Mary Forster and talk to her. She kept telling herself that she had no mother, but she did in fact have a mother. Maybe, then, she could shake this sadness, this sense of wrongness, that hung over her, if she went to the source herself. Mary Forster couldn’t be all bad if her father had loved her so much. And then she could marry Trem without this feeling of dread, of feeling unmoored, hovering over her consciousness.

All at once, she had decided to go to Dorset to see her. Suddenly, the urge to leave, to go, had become irresistible. She wanted to marry Trem with a clean soul. And the moment this path appeared before her, going down it seemed the only way to accomplish that goal.

However, when Henrietta Breminster had left London, it hadn’t been raining.

Furthermore, now that she had been in the carriage for a few hours, it occurred to her that she should have left Trem a note telling him she planned to come back soon.

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