The Highlander
“Anxious agitation drove Mena to her feet and her companions, Millie LeCour and Farah Blackwell, both rose in tandem as she began to pace across the lush cobalt carpets of the Blackwells’ Mayfair mansion. “What if he’s … the poor children … I must—”
“Mena, darling.” Farah’s robin-blue skirts rustled in the heavy, expectant quiet of the house as she put her arm around Mena’s shoulders and tried to steer her back to the settee. “Dorian and Christopher left to look after your Lord Ravencroft before... Murdoch and I brought your emancipation papers to the authorities. They promised to send a messenger if there was any news to report.”
Mena’s anguish was a tight fist in her chest, squeezing her heart until every beat seemed as though it might be her last. She hadn’t felt this kind of helpless desperation since Belle Glen. For once, her pain had nothing to do with her own hopeless situation.
Even when she’d thought she was going back to the asylum, when she’d assumed Gordon had delivered her to another indefinite hellish incarceration, the only care she had was for Liam.MoreLess
“Mena, darling.” Farah’s robin-blue skirts rustled in the heavy, expectant quiet of the house as she put her arm around Mena’s shoulders and tried to steer her back to the settee. “Dorian and Christopher left to look after your Lord Ravencroft before... Murdoch and I brought your emancipation papers to the authorities. They promised to send a messenger if there was any news to report.”
Mena’s anguish was a tight fist in her chest, squeezing her heart until every beat seemed as though it might be her last. She hadn’t felt this kind of helpless desperation since Belle Glen. For once, her pain had nothing to do with her own hopeless situation.
Even when she’d thought she was going back to the asylum, when she’d assumed Gordon had delivered her to another indefinite hellish incarceration, the only care she had was for Liam.MoreLess
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