Young Angelica saw the world through rose tinted glasses until the night her father was murdered before her very eyes. Will Angelica avenge her father's murder or will she become the next victim in a murderer's twisted plot of revenge?
View MoreThe next morning they were both pleasantly exhausted, but not too exhausted to enjoy each other again before getting up to go to Mr. Simcoe's home. They were due there by noon.They made it to Mr. Simcoe's just before their appointment, they would have been late if Angie hadn't put a stop to Roderick's roaming hands. When they knocked the butler announced them to Mr Simcoe in his study. "Good afternoon, I hope you are enjoying married life?" Angie blushed, a very becoming pink, before she could catch herself. "Come have a seat, I'm sure you're both curious about why I summoned you." Once they were seated and they both had their drinks Mr Simcoe continued, "Lady Angelica, when your father was alive he taught you how to decode, I know because he told me. I have a document here that is very important, it could mean the death of many if in the wrong hands, Whitehall needs you, dear, we need you to decode this document for me so we can get our people out of France safely. Will you help?" B
"I've always loved children and biologically or not this child is mine, it will be a little Greenland regardless of blood. Blood doesn't matter to the Greenland's, we love each other anyway." "I don't understand." She heard every word he said, but they didn't make sense."I'm not Max's biological son, my mother was raped before she met father and when he proposed, she denied him because she was with child. Max didn't care she was pregnant, he loved her and he wanted us both in his life. He married my mother as she was giving birth to me, he didn't have to make me his heir, but he said I was his son, so I was his heir. He would have never told me if my mother's rapist hadn't approached me and bragged about what a good lay my mother was. He's dead by the way, I challenged him and killed him. Max told me everything after the duel. It took me a while, but I finally accepted that my biological father forced himself on my mother and the man that I grew up knowing as my father wasn't, but I
"Good, now here's Ann with your breakfast tray. Eat your meal and we'll start the day and I'll get a new daughter." Lady Arlene left as Angie was taking dainty bites of toast.************************************************************Roderick's breath caught in his throat when he saw Angie walking down the grand staircase on Mr. Simcoe's arm in a splendid white gown with pearls delicately stitched into the bodice. It showed her magnificent cleavage almost causing him to swallow his tongue.He barely registered his brother's in drawn breath or that the room was instantly quiet, he only had eyes for Angie and her beautiful smile. He took a step toward the stairs but stopped when he felt the pressure of his brother's hand on his shoulder and his whispered, "patience" . He stood fidgeting restlessly watching her slow progress to the makeshift altar in the formal parlor. When she finally stopped before him Roderick was a nervous wreck.They stood facing each other and Roderick took a fi
The son was just starting to rise when she woke up with an unsettled stomach, she wasn't sure if it was from the baby or from her nervousness over the upcoming vacancies. and knocked on the door and entered as she was baid to do. "Lady Arlene sent me up to make sure you were awake and ready to start the day. Your dress has been completed and we need you to check the fitting. Come on, child, we have a long day ahead of us, we have a dress fitting, a wedding, a wedding ceremony, and the wedding night. We have to get started or we're going to be late!" "I'm up, I'm just a little queasy at the moment, so please give me a few moments. Could you get me some tea and toast to settle it please? I'll be ready as soon as possible." "Yes ma'am." Ann bought a curtsy and left the bed chamber only to be replaced by Lady Arlene, Barbara, Lily and a few maids. They all spread out like they were an army battalion executing maneuvers against an opposing side. It was a little daunting to see these wom
Angie swallowed against the lump in her throat and gave him a misty smile, "Yes, I'll be your wife and we'll be a family together." She laid her free hand on her still flat stomach, she came very close to blurting out that she loved him, but she caught her wayward tongue just in time.He gave a gusty sigh of relief and sprained to his feet to tightly embrace her. "Thank you." He breathed into her ear. "You've made me very happy." He laid his hand over her so smiled a smile of sheer joy."How soon do you want to get married?""Tomorrow, I have a special license already." He said with a sheepish grin. "I must go tell my mother that she's going to gain a new daughter and that she may soon be a grandmother!" He laughed and rushed from the room like an excited little boy. She stood in stunned silence not believing she just agreed to marry a man she barely knew. All she knew about him spoke well of him, but she felt there was something he was holding back. Something she should know, but he
"Well? Did she agree to wet the boy?" Lord Max demanded of his wife as soon as she entered his bed chamber. he was sitting up in bed with a pile of pillows fluffed behind his back. "She didn't agree nor disagree. She said she needed time to think about it, I told her to take her time and it was fine for her to spend some time with Roderick so she can get to know him. I tried to reassure her, but I'm not sure if I did a very good job of it or not. She's scared and doesn't know where to turn or who to trust. She went through every woman's worst nightmare and she's trying to be strong for her little sister. From what I saw I'd say she's more of a mom to that child than a sister. She feels compelled to protect the child." lady Arlene crawled into bed next to her husband and curled up to his warmth. "Good morning to you too husband." She gently reprimanded him and kissed his whispered cheek. His smile took about 10 years off of his face and made him look just as handsome as he was when th
"Who's Roderick? Do I know him?" Angelica asked not sure to whom this Roderick person was."Oh, dear, of course you're not going to know to whom I speak of. Roderick is the man who brought you and your young sister here to me. He's the one that came to your assistance last eve. You'll be seeing him soon enough. He's a very good man with a very good heart. Ah, Ann, please take sweet Michelle down to the kitchen for one of Cook's apricot treats." Once Michelle was gone, Lady Arlene approached Angie's bed and sat on the edge facing Angie. "Now that we are alone and you are breaking your fast we can speak openly, for you see, we have a very serious matter that we must speak of." Lady Arlene took a deep bracing breath then continued in a steady reasonable voice. "Because of the incident from last Eve you must marry, dear." She paused to let this bit of news to sink into Angie's numb mind, she continued only after Angie's eyes widen and shock. "Yes, my dear, has the only way to save your re
"I may have had something to do with that. Father was asking who the new child in the nursery was and all the commotion all night that kept waking him. I didn't want to tell him, but you can't lie to Father, he can smell one from a mile off, so I told him everything. I'm sorry." he raised pleading eyes up to Roderick, begging for forgiveness. Roderick's side and shook his head at his naive sibling"I don't blame you for your honesty the father, for I could never lie to him myself." can embrace Darren and slapped his back to reassure him. "There's nothing to forgive. Come, let's sit and have a toast to my upcoming wedding. I might as well accept the inevitable and wed the chit." They went back to the respective seats and shared a toast. they spent the rest of the afternoon drinking companionably and catching up with one another.************************************************************Angie didn't want to remember the events of the night before, all she wanted to do was curl up int
"What are you doing in Town? I thought you were at Carlisle Estate helping our mother take care of father." "She has Babs and Lily to help her. Little Michelle is in the nursery with Brianna and Bradley, you're Miss Angie is being cared for by Miss Marsh and Ann. She's being treated like a queen, is there anything else you'd like to know?""Don't give me cheek you young pup! I've been in town taking care of business on behalf of the McAllister sisters and they have now become my official wards by the war department." He roughly raped his hands through his dreadfully the shoveled black hair. "What am I to do? I don't need this right now." Came his desperate plea.Darren slapped Roderick on the back and sat in a chair across from his brother with his feet spread and his elbows on his knees mimicking Roderick's newest posture. With a cognac hanging from his hand between his knees Roderick took a long drink of his cognac and sighed at the welcoming burn. "You'll think of something, Mich
"No!!!" came a blood curdling shriek and grunts. Angelica ran to her father's lifeless body, she shoved his killer out of her way as she flung herself onto the alleyways ground next to her father. "Papa, no, papa. Please don't die!" Angelica cried in despair."What do we have here? The tuff has a sweet daisy? Let's have a taste of her sweet nectar." Angelica heard a rough voice say from behind her. She remembered her little sister at the mouth of the alley and grew cold. No! Not Michelle too! Angelica stood, spinning on her heels, ready to spring to her baby sister's defense only to realize too late that her sister wasn't visible in the gloom.She stood facing three men, all three have large square builds, they started advancing on her. "No," she whispered, shaking her head and taking a step back for every step they took toward her. She turned and ran as fast as her legs would take her. "Help!!" she screamed, stumbling over items she couldn't and didn't want to see. The tallest of the
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