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The Children's Farm
Kylie looked at the beautiful paintings hanging on the great hall wall. Some of the portraits were interesting to Kylie because she could see Jasper in some of them. It was the eyes, very blue, sincere. It was a pity that these people in the paintings weren't smiling, it seemed that nobody smiled in portraits in those far off days, but, she could bet if they were, they would look exactly like Jasper. There was one man, dressed in some uniform, lovely red coat, big sword and lots of gold braids, if that man smiled it could be Jasper in fancy dress.
She wondered what Richie's family were like. They probably wouldn't be very impressed with her, an unmarried mother at nineteen. It had been hard to leave Richie and the beautiful apartment last night, but she knew he understood and she had received several texts this morning. Kylie had switched off her phone while they were on the coach, she didn't want Grant asking who was texting when he was sitting next to her. When they got to thRelated chapters
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Ellie and Jasper waited until the last of the visitors had left the house before they did their tour. They started at the front door. Jasper held it open for her, and he sat on his heels, running his fingers over the blackened oak door. "Look, here," he said, pulling her down with him. "When I was ten, I carved my initials into the door. My mum had a fit, and she made me boot black them out before my dad saw what I'd done. You can still feel them." Ellie ran her fingers over the door, tracing the J the A for his middle name Alexander and N for his surname. "Boys and their penknives!""Ahh, actually more like Mary's vegetable knife, she was so cross. Terrified that I might have cut myself, it was a very sharp knife. Come on, let's see what other trouble I managed to get myself into."Ellie looked around the entrance hall, "Sliding down the bannister?""Yes, trouble is with a dogleg, even though it's quite big it was always a pain having to get off and get o
The Disreputable Duke Ellie's Errand
Kylie was so happy that it was Tuesday, she had told Grant that she was taking Suki to her mum's and staying the night. He didn't seem to have a problem with that, although, "Why are you taking all that stuff?" he asked, looking at the large holdall."Oh its stuff Suki has grown out of, my mum says she has a friend who collects things for refugees. Besides it's filling all the drawers, best get rid of it."Grant grunted his assent. He went back to watching the traffic from the window. Kylie went back into the bedroom and grabbed a couple of tops and another pair of jeans. She shoved them into her holdall. Was there anything else that she should take? She looked around the bedroom, seeing the memories of the past eight months. She and Grant had such fun when they first moved in here, he'd painted the room for her, made it as lovely as he could for, and the baby. She had tried hard to be an excellent partner to him. Kylie cooked him his favourite meals, made sure she ironed
The Disreputable Duke Richie Works Out.
Jasper put the final touches on Ellie's painting, stood back, took it in, and looked for things that needed more work. He hoped she would be pleased with what he had done; he certainly was. Jasper looked at his watch; she should have been back by now. He grinned to himself she was probably downstairs hiding from him. She knew what he wanted to do, and she had been avoiding him. Well, she could hide, and she could run; but he would get her delicious body in his bed sooner or later. He just adored teasing her and seeing the scowl on her face turn into a look of desperate longing.He ran downstairs to the kitchen, Betty and Edna were sorting the laundry out, Carly was ironing, they were listening to the radio, and all was peaceful. "Hey ladies, is it time for a cuppa?" he said, filling the kettle. "Is Ellie back yet?""We haven't seen her since this morning," Betty said."Oh she's probably lost in Selfridges shoe department or something, I'll call her. he made the
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Jasper stretched out in a reclining chair in Ellie's hospital room. He'd pulled it right up to her bed so that he could hold her hand. Gus had given her painkillers, and for the moment, she was sleeping."What are you going to do, Jasper?" asked Gus as he checked the IV drip going into her arm. "Do you want me to call the police?""I'm not sure what to do; this is such a mess. I don't want to subject Ellie to the press, but Thwaite needs sorting out." Jasper heaved a sigh and told Gus of the previous intervention that Tom Thwaite had tried."He needs to be stopped Jasp, look at her she's in a dreadful state. She's lucky that she hasn't sustained some permanent damage. If he's done this now; how do we know he hasn't done this before? How do we know he's not going to do this again?" Gus asked.The injuries Ellie sustained looked even worse in this light, and Jasper could hardly bear to look at her. Her beautiful face swollen and discoloured. Black spider leg
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Ellie was asleep when her mum and dad arrived. They called Jasper, who went down to the main door to meet them. Jasper took them to a waiting room near Ellie so that he could talk to them without being in Ellie's hearing."I'm so sorry this has happened to Ellie, I can't believe that one of my friends or anyone could even contemplate this," Jasper explained about Tom and his ideas of why he, Jasper shouldn't marry Ellie.Bill grinned when Jasper told him about her throwing the tie back like a lasso, "She can be very fierce my little girl.""Yes she can and don't I know it." Jasper laughed. "From what I can work out what happened yesterday was a total fluke, we don't know yet if Tom Thwaite was following her or if he just saw her and then saw red. I think that is probably more like it. If he had been following her, other times would have been better for him to have done this rather than yesterday in Covent Garden. He took a huge chance.""Is her face terrible?" Ma
The Disreputable Duke The Letter
Kylie sighed in relief when she arrived back at the flat. Her palms had been damp when she though that Grant may have seen her if he had been watching out of the window, and the last thing she wanted was to explain why she was getting out of the Duke of Shettleham's car.Oh, that would have been something, if Grant had seen that! She looked at her phone, nothing from Richie yet, still he was probably saving his millions, and that took concentration. Where was Grant, she could text him and find out?"Hi, I'm home, where are you?"Kylie put her phone on the windowsill. They had worked out when they first came to live here that there was better signal reception at that end of the room. She filled the kettle and began to clean the kitchen. Grant had not washed up after his burgers the night before,
The Disreputable Duke The Text
Kylie still hadn't heard from either male in her life. She really couldn't care less about Grant, but it would be nice to know where he was. She wondered about texting Richie, but she didn't want to disturb him if he was still working. Suki was still napping, and Kylie made herself a sandwich and relaxed with a cup of coffee. Kylie's eyes were closing when there was a loud banging on the door. She jolted awake, almost spilling the rest of her coffee. Kylie began to grizzle as she went past the bedroom door and she would have picked her up, but the banging started again.She opened the door, about to tell whoever it was to keep it down. Instead, facing her at the door, two policemen and a policewoman."Kylie Wildgoose?""Yes, what's happened is someone hurt?" she asked, thinking they had come to tel
The Disreputable Duke Whispering in Corners
Richie sat in his car across the road from the chip shop over which Kylie had her flat. He could see the window of the living room was open at the top. The net curtain was blowing in the breeze. He knew what was behind that curtain; the dull cream walls and drab brown carpet. She had done her best with what she had—the oblong coffee table with ring marks from long finished mugs of coffee. The square glass coasters sitting on it were Kylie's attempt at saving the rest of the table. He remembered that she had polished it at a recent time with lavender beeswax polish, the smell competing with old chip fat and damp walls.Richie pulled his phone out and stared at all the messages Kylie had sent him. Her happiness and excitement were so apparent in everything she had written to him. He had no idea why he had asked that stupid question. She had no idea about that fucking letter, and he was just a fuc
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