To Walk in the Sun (Wiggons' School for Elegant Young Ladies - book 1)
“He stood in the entryway and watched her fly up the stairs as if the hounds of hell were on her heels. If she were wise, she would pack and leave his house tonight. However, no doubt Miss Crawford still believed him to be the same gullible gentleman she had first met. A smile pulled at his lips. Oh, he would show her gullible and her fiancé too. He wondered how Percer would feel when he found the tables turned on him. The question was, would he seduce her before he exposed her?
Once he heard her door close, Vincent strode toward the foyer, lifted his greatcoat from the chair where it was left each evening and exited out into the darkness. This would be his last midnight visit to Veronica’s grave.
* * * Tess grabbed the footboard of her bed the moment she entered her chamber. It was all she could do to stop the tremor of her hands. If she did not calm herself soon, her heart would surely beat out of her chest. Goodness, what was she to do?
What had come over Atwood?
She sank onto the bed.
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