Wolvercraft Manor by Cas E Crowe

Author:Cas E Crowe
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781922679901
Publisher: Tangled Tree Publishing

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Saige traced her fingers along the journal. “She recorded everything. Every detail of every day.”

Theodosia’s journal was still in good condition on the outside, but inside the pages had aged, the cursive writing faded to a dull brown. Saige had to bring the candle close to read it. Each entry was a personal and intimate account of Theodosia’s thoughts and feelings. There were hopes, dreams, ambitions. Guilt tugged inside Saige. The woman was long dead, but somehow reading her journals still felt intrusive.

Mildred smoothed her mop of curls back. “She was a socialite but also a very private woman.”

“There doesn’t seem to be any detail about Frederick Wolvercraft. She writes a few times that he’s handsome and a suitable match, but that’s it.”

Saige found that strange.

If you love someone, you’d be bursting with such happiness that surely you’d record it in your journal.

Her eyes inadvertently turned to Jasper. He was looking at her. The intensity in his stare made her heart fumble.

A slow grin spread over his face. “Maybe Theodosia married for the title. Maybe there was no love involved.”

Mildred rubbed a hand across her eyes. “It’s possible.”

Saige turned another page in the journal. “What’s this?”

She lifted a black-and-white photograph that was faded and grainy. Most of the background had been washed out, but the three subjects in the forefront were clear. There was a man on the right who Saige instantly recognised as Frederick Wolvercraft, an older woman in the centre in a stunning dress with lavish furs, and a young girl on the left whose smile was bright, her hair dark, long, and sweeping over her shoulder in thick waves. She couldn’t have been any older than seventeen. Saige paused. It had to be a trick of the camera, or simply the aging of the photo, but the girl’s eyes were black shadows that seemed to hold in secrets. An intense wave of darkness slid over Saige like a shadow, but it vanished in an instant.

She passed the photo to Mildred. “Who is this girl?”

The clairvoyant put on a pair of winged cat’s-eye glasses and examined the picture. Her lips pinched. “That’s Theodosia’s daughter, Anna Sinclair.”

“Theodosia had been married before?”

Mildred nodded. “She was a widow. She had her husband’s wealth and an inheritance that made her a target for many a man.”

Jasper snorted. “Doesn’t sound like you have a very high opinion of men.”

Mildred turned on him so fast, Saige wondered how she didn’t have a neck ache. “I don’t.”

His lips tipped into a faint smile, his voice a whisper. “That would explain all the cats.”

Saige kicked him under the table. He glared back at her. His hair, which had started to dry, stuck out wildly around his head. Saige hated that he had the messy rock star look down to perfection. Her hair, on the other hand, had turned into a frizzy mess suitable for a bird to nest in.

A quiet shudder passed over Saige that she believed had nothing to do with her wet clothes. She turned back to the other woman.

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