“You cannot just kill the girl,” Justin argued impatiently.
Evelyn Amherst tilted her chin to the ocean’s blue sky…
One week later Evelyn found herself sharing tea with her…
Evelyn stood at the top of the white marble staircase…
Evelyn’s bottom was going numb. She shifted in the hard…
Justin jumped from his carriage and bounded up the stairs…
“Devil take it!”
With the sunshine of a beautiful day to warm her…
Justin ran the hard-bristled brush down Cheshire’s flanks and followed…
“So you see, Miss Amherst, you must consider your future,”…
As the horses meandered down the lane, slipping into the…
Evelyn tossed another log onto the fire and inhaled the…
Justin threw his cards down, disgusted. “She is not involved,…
Justin tugged at a knot in Cheshire’s tail, intent on…
The midday sun was high in the sky as Evelyn…
Justin raked his hands through his hair for the thousandth…
Perspiration lined his brow and soaked his armpits, his breath…
“I cannot even stand to look at the man’s face,”…
Shah raced in from Justin’s chamber, a hunk of cheese…
Evelyn could not sleep. She lay on her pallet, staring…
Justin woke near dawn; at least he thought it was…
Two days passed, and for Evelyn it was like an…
Justin tore through the rain-scored blackness, his battered body barely…
Evelyn was shaking so badly that she thought her teeth…
Sully knew he was dying, and he was not much…
Justin awoke from his nap with a cold sweat blanketing…
Evelyn alighted from Justin’s carriage, thankful to be out of…
Voices whispered in the darkness, but Evelyn had no wish…
Evelyn stared up at the dilapidated dwelling that looked exactly…
“No, Justin. You cannot go,” Evelyn insisted. Fear was like…
Justin hobbled down the long, carpeted hallway, every muscle in…
Just as the blood ran through his veins, the pain…
The sun hovered on the brink of morning as glittering,…
Hours later, after having sorted through the facts and cleared…
Sitting down on the sturdy tree limb, Evelyn adjusted her…