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North Yorkshire, England
Autumn 1811
James Warrington met his half sister’s determined gaze. A pink flush on
Rachel’s high cheekbones emphasized her tightly drawn lips. Shimmery
tears brightened her silver eyes but did little to dim the rage brewing within
them.
He braced himself for a battle.
A battle he was not entirely sure he would win.
“You are to have no more contact with Richard Standish,” James
articulated. “No more secret letters or clandestine meetings. Am I clear?”
Rachel met his stare with unmasked defiance, yet she remained silent.
He steadied his resolve. “Tell me you understand and that you’ll obey
me.”
For the briefest flicker of a moment, he thought she might soften and
perhaps even comply, but then in a sudden whirl of patterned saffron chintz,
she spun away and stormed to the broad window. “You are cruel, James!
How dare you behave so meanly!”
It would be simple to be drawn further into an argument, but where
would such a response take them?
The gray morning light slid in through the front parlor’s tall windows,
highlighting the tremble of her thin shoulders. He was not sure when this
metamorphosis from content child to morose sixteen-year-old had occurred.
Regardless, he hated to see her cry.
He tempered his voice. “’Tis for your own good, Rachel.”
“How do you know that?” she challenged.
“Because I know his sort.”
“His sort? How would you even know what sort he is?” Her voice
shrilled. “You’ve refused to even speak with him! You’re the most
prejudiced, condescending, ridiculous—”
“Enough, Rachel.”
“But you know nothing about him!” She hurled her words like shots from
a cannon. “Richard is kind. Considerate. You’d do well to emulate him, and
I—”
“I said, enough!” His words reverberated from the plaster moldings on
the ceiling, silencing her. He cleared his throat and straightened his
neckcloth, buying himself time to soothe his mounting frustration and select
his words with care. “I’m your guardian. You will abide by my instructions,
and nothing else need be said on the matter.”
Rachel’s nostrils flared as she pivoted to face him. “Very well then,
Brother. What do you suggest I do? You and you alone forced us to sever
ties with everything and everyone that is familiar in Plymouth. Then you
bring us out to some godforsaken place where there is no polite society
whatsoever. So, what now? You decide whom I speak with? Whom I love?”
Love? He jerked at the word. He didn’t know whether to laugh or cringe.
What could this green girl possibly know about romantic love?
He sniffed. “When you are old enough to make decisions responsibly,
then you may decide such things. Until then, I must intervene. As for
Standish, the boy is penniless, with no respectable connections. He’s
undoubtedly learned of your inheritance. How he even managed to speak
with you in the first place is beyond me.”
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