RETURN TO THE LOVELOCK INN (VALENTINE KEY #1) BY KATIE PRESCOTT – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Katie Prescott
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- Genre: Contemporary romance
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Victoria Rose Lovelock brushed back a strand of hair from her eyes
as she scanned the beautifully handwritten letter from her beloved Aunt
Lily. The words toward the top of the first page—“I find that I’m slowing
down these days”—made Victoria stop and start the letter over, reading
carefully instead of simply skimming through it.
The letter was addressed to Victoria and her sisters, but her aunt’s
neat script included a personalized note to Victoria at the bottom of the
second page. Victoria had no doubt each of her sisters had received a
similar note. That was just like Aunt Lily, wanting to personalize each letter
she sent out to her brother’s daughters.
Yes, Victoria was in a hurry, but not so much so she couldn’t spare
time to read what Aunt Lily had so carefully penned. She took a minute to
sit down in a chair at the kitchen table in her small New York apartment.
She focused on the letter from her favorite relative that had been handdelivered by an actual messenger, of all things.
Lily Lovelock was the only sister, and sole remaining sibling, of her
late father, Horatio Lovelock. She was also the only long time maternal
figure Victoria had since the death of her mother, Isabella. Her father’s third
wife, Sunshine, would likely have done her best to mother Victoria, but
their time together had been even more fleeting than Horatio’s marriage to
the woman.
Victoria’s memories of her mother were few and treasured.
Whenever she cast her memory back to that time in her young life, all she
could recall was her mother’s smiling face, the scent of jasmine and a
general feeling of warmth and security.
She hadn’t yet turned four years old when she lost her mother and
Victoria regretted she couldn’t remember her better. At this point, she
wasn’t even sure which of her memories were true ones and which her mind
had made up based on things she’d been told about Isabella over the years.
There were, of course several pictures of Victoria with Isabella, both
of them smiling, but Victoria’s memories were different, more than mere
images could convey. Innate, somehow. She knew in her heart that her
mother had loved her dearly. And she had loved her mother above anyone
else.
The memories she had of her father, on the other hand, were
drastically different. It was as though the father she knew as a very young
child was a different person from the one she knew later. After her mother
was gone.
It was difficult for Victoria to reconcile the feelings she carried for
him now versus the ones formed when she’d been a small child. Before her
mother had been taken away from them.
Victoria remembered clearly that her father had been very sad. His
always firm tone of voice had faltered when he told Victoria her mother had
gone away.
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