Murder at Almack's: A Regency Romantic Suspense Short Story Read Online Free PDF

bow of the ship, his eyes devouring his wife, then son. Joy leaped in his heart, cracking through the hardness that had come with battle, his taut, ever-alert senses finding ease. He’d settled his score against the damage the Duke of Belville had done to his family and his nation. Now he’d settled his score against the French.
    He strode weary down the gangplank, the ship that had brought him from Calais tossing gently on the water, Ellingham and Trevor coming along behind.
    One thought, one thought alone, filled his mind.
    Eliza.
    As if in a dream, she stood before him on the quay, their babe wrapped in her arms. Tears shimmered in her eyes, the sun bright on his wife and child. “I named him after Papa,” she said, her voice breaking. “I hope you do not mind.”
    He kissed her, the memory of her lips that had sustained him in battle now real against his.
    She pulled back. “My love—”
    Love, he thought. Good God, he was blessed.
    “—your arm.”
    “’Tis nothing. ’Twill mend in a month’s time.”
    She placed the babe—his son —in the crook of his uninjured arm.
    Pride swelled in his heart. Pride. Joy.
    Love.
    He bent his head and brushed his lips over his son’s tiny brow. New life. For him. For Eliza.
    A new world for his son. He returned Frederick to Eliza’s arms and wrapped his own around her beloved waist. “Come,” he said. “Let us go home.”

 
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    Copyright © 2013 by Sharon Louise
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