“It makes me wonder whether the king’s side has made contact with her. A man as efficient as that would hardly sit idle for so long without planning something.”
“Yes. But did Miss Somerset show any signs of that?”
Windsor once again pressed his lips tightly together.
There had been no such signs. And yet… before she could betray them, it might be better to remove Jacqueline first. Even if Benjamin’s education suffered a gap because of it.
Would that make this unpleasant feeling disappear as well?
Windsor leaned back against the seat and closed his eyes. It was an unpleasant sensation he had never felt before she came to Preston Manor.
So perhaps, if she disappeared, this feeling would disappear too.
As soon as he closed his eyes, Jacqueline’s radiant smiling face intruded into his mind uninvited.
He tried to push it away—but the more he did, the deeper…
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