Courting Trouble
“Jed’s challenge still echoed two days later as Esme sat in the library and contemplated the stack of letters, mute evidence of her industry, waiting on the corner of her desk. He hadn’t repeated it, but his mere presence, the knowledge he was in the secret workroom beneath the house, made her restless.
And then there was the threat Nazim represented.
She’d dressed carefully this morning, taking certain precautions. Against all usual practice, the gates to the stable yard and house were ...shut and bolted.
It had been quite a performance, dragging the heavy wrought-iron gates over the leaf litter and dirt that had built up against them through months of standing open. There’d been the rusty immobility of the bolts. Francis had muttered, but Esme had been adamant. Andrew had arrived with an oil can and squirted generously, splattering himself and Francis, much to the latter’s vocal disgust.
Try how she would, she couldn’t dismiss from her mind Nazim’s threat against all she held dear.MoreLess
And then there was the threat Nazim represented.
She’d dressed carefully this morning, taking certain precautions. Against all usual practice, the gates to the stable yard and house were ...shut and bolted.
It had been quite a performance, dragging the heavy wrought-iron gates over the leaf litter and dirt that had built up against them through months of standing open. There’d been the rusty immobility of the bolts. Francis had muttered, but Esme had been adamant. Andrew had arrived with an oil can and squirted generously, splattering himself and Francis, much to the latter’s vocal disgust.
Try how she would, she couldn’t dismiss from her mind Nazim’s threat against all she held dear.MoreLess
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