The Viscount Returns

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Author: Eryn Black
Allen into Fiona’s domain. “And he is to stay the night under my hospitality. Can you find someone to attend to him and show him to the blue room so that he may freshen up before supper while I find where Jefferson has hidden himself? Or has that room also gone missing along with everything else that used to stand in this room?”
    “No, the blue room is in fine repair and is freshly aired from guests who left just this morning.” Ruth stepped forward and took the men’s saddlebags before leading the way to the stairs.
    “Ruth? What are you doing?” Robert stepped forward to stop her. He had come home to find his world tossed into a sea of insanity. “I meant for you to send a maid to escort him, or do you no longer command the kitchen?”
    “I fear I am the only one available as of this moment, but not to fear about supper, I will have it ready for the two of you after you have had a chance to freshen up and brush the dust of the road out of your hair.”
    Robert paused for a moment and was sickened by what he was finding to be his welcome home.
    “Never mind, never mind, I will take care of my guest myself. You have enough to handle.” He swung Allen’s bag over his shoulder, piling it over his own. Passing Ruth on the marble steps, Robert guided the way.
     
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    “Did you see him? What did he say?” Fiona hid in the kitchen, wiping her brow clean from the dirt of the day’s labor and the perspiration from the ride and haste she made toward the servant’s entrance.
    “I cannot say he was glad to find his home as it is.” Ruth passed her by and picked up a knife to attend to the half chopped vegetables. “How long do you plan of letting him go on ignorant of everything that has happened?”
    “I cannot be bothered with those things for right now.”
    “Then at least allow me to help draw you a bath. A man deserves to see his wife looking like a proper lady when he returns home after eight years.”
    “I have already started to heat my own water and the screen is in place down here. That way I can help you with the added meal.”
    “Nonsense!” She slammed her knife down on the block. “You have worked your hands to the bone for that man’s estate and I will not have you brought down to my status for the sake of my convenience.”
    “Do not bother yourself. I enjoy the company and besides, who will we get to carry the water up?” She shrugged at the lack of reply. “That is settled. I will take my bath down here and we can send Sprout up with some wash water for them.”
    “And that is another thing!” Ruth tossed down her knife again. “Why is it he thinks his own son is silly Sarah’s boy?”
    Forcing a calm to her voice, Fiona hoped that she would persuade a bit of understanding from Ruth. “I cannot answer you to his confusion, but there was no time earlier to set him straight. I could not confess something so important to him in the mill with the others looking on, and Sprout at my side to see his unpredicted response. Allow me to do it in my own time.”
    “Which had best be tonight and not a moment later,” she warned the distraught lady.
    “You’ll see it will be just how I have always dreamed it.” Nodding to her with an amused tone. “Though over the years Sprout’s size has changed a bit.” Her eyes glistened as she looked off into her dream. “He will be awaiting me in the parlor with a brandy in hand. Dressed all in black as he did the day we were wed. His hair will be slicked back with that one stubborn curl above his right ear. I will be elegant all in red.”
    “Red!” The older woman's shock forced a chuckle from Fiona’s lips.
    “It’s my dream, not yours.” Fiona felt like the girl she had once been, planning what she would wear and what she would feel when she was first introduced to her betrothed, and it felt refreshing. “And yes,” she answered Ruth’s questioning face with a stubborn, upturned chin. “I will be wearing red.” She read
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