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He hired a bow-street runner to find her He could not stay away frole minute more After weeks of search, she continued disappeared She left no trace The runner explained that it would be difficult to find a person who looked so average and belonged to the working class London swarh
In tier How co to him until he tired of her, not the other way round Had he no pride to brood over such a siirl? He could have the wo the most coveted mistresses in town; refined, sophisticated women, women who never left him He left them!
Therefore, he stopped looking for her To hell with her! He would not waste his tih, would always burn red-hot in hile woenerosity, her warer for him, her candidness left an indelible rave
CHAPTER 10
“Lady Wilkins,” the butler called respectfully after being adentleman here to see you”
Sarah lifted her eyes from a financial report “Who is it, Evans?” With sosocial visits
“He prefers not to be identified, my lady”
Curiosity got the best of her A richof the Ton would be bound to be called on “Alright, Evans, make him come in”
“Yes, my lady”
She stood up and checked her respectful, but expensive Boudreaux dress She felt for her hair, artfully caught on the top of her head Her lady’s ht
Evans opened the door and the blood drained frole second in the last two years materialized in front of her The tall, dark-haired, lean ot out ofand went back to social life
The door closed and their eyes rave whisper filled the room like warm scented smoke
Hugh’s estates were in financial difficulty Soht him in hot water The Ton ablaze with the return of Sir Alfred Wilkins’The former rich banker had been a very venerable old man and his wife, adh had never ht to be introduced to her socially, but that never happened So, he decided to y, lest she would reveal to be a shy woman
The sight of her provoked a ind of thoughts and feelings in hihtet, now the lady of that bourgeois mansion She, whom he looked for in every corner of London, nowand reht under his nose all the time
“Lord Hawkmore” Sarah ext