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London, England
July, 1815
Standing in his family’s gallery, Henry Thomas Northcott, the perpetually
accursed thirteenth Baron Northcott, stared at one of the paintings. Only it
was not the current portrait on the wall he was seeing, it was the portrait of
his family that had hung there before and had long since been taken down.
How easily the past could be removed and rendered forgotten.
If only that could be said for the gossips of the ton.
“There you are, Henry,” his aunt said, stepping purposefully toward him.
The dark maroon color of her gown combined with the evening light
filtering through the windows turned her graying auburn hair a shade of
plum. “Why did you not come to the parlor? I was waiting to have tea with
you.”
There was neither anger nor worry in her tone. His aunt always held
herself with the utmost comportment and control. Traits he himself tried to
reflect.
“My apologies, Aunt,” he said, turning away from the portrait. “I
intended to be but a moment.”
He shouldn’t have come into this room.
“Is everything all right?” she asked, her brows drawing together as she
stopped before him. “Did something happen in the House of Lords?” She
reached up and adjusted the ermine collar of his red ceremonial robe.
“Nothing that was not expected,” he replied, ignoring the sudden urge to
rid himself of the anvil-like weight upon his shoulders. The barony mantle
had never felt like it belonged to him, no matter how many times he donned
the robes.
The Prince Regent had come to Westminster with all the pomp and
circumstance he was known for. His extravagant crimson-and-gold carriage
had been escorted by an entire host of cavalry, and he was welcomed with a
cannon salute. Prorogation was then performed, closing out that session of
Parliament and sending most of the aristocracy and gentry to their country
estates.
It had been what Henry had overheard as he walked out of Westminster
that led him to the gallery.
“That’s him . . . the Brooding Baron.”
“The heir whose predecessor was murdered?”
“The very one.”
“I heard the previous baron was killed by his brother’s widow.”
“I heard the same, and that she was spared the noose in order to avoid a
public trial and then sent to Bedlam.”
“It’s no wonder the baron broods, to have such a mother.”
Henry had swiftly passed by the two new lords, not wanting to hear any
more of the gossip. The many rumors about his family’s past haunted him
everywhere he went.
His aunt’s eyes drifted to the portrait behind him. Her countenance
faltered as her eyes lit with emotion, but there was no warmth to them.
There was pain, there was heartache, and then there was anger. She stepped
around him, moving closer to the painting. “His hair had just begun to silver
at the sides and temples,” she said in a distant tone, as if she were back in
the library the day the portrait was commissioned.
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