Read A Night to Surrender (Spindle Cove #1)(24) online free by Tessa Dare
Author: Tessa Dare
“How do you know the man, Papa?”
“Who, Bramwell?”
Bram. After a kiss like that, you must call me Bram.
A shiver went through her. “Yes.”
“His father was an old school friend. Went on to become a major general, highly decorated. Lived most of his commissioned years in India, but he died there not long ago.”
A pang of sympathy pinched her heart. Was Bram still mourning his father? “When, exactly?”
Her father raised his head, squinting into some imaginary distance. “Must be over a year now.”
Not so recently, then. But grief could easily outlast a year. Susanna hated to imagine how long she would mourn Papa, should he die unexpectedly.
“Did you know Mrs. Bramwell, too?”
With a penknife, he sharpened his stub of pencil and began to scribble again. “Met her a few times, the last when Victor was just an infant. Then they went to India, and that was the end of her. Dysentery, I believe.”
“Oh dear. How tragic.”
“Such things happen.”
She bit her lip, knowing he meant her own mother. Though she’d died with her second stillborn child over a decade ago, Anna Rose Finch lived on in Susanna’s memory: vividly beautiful, unfailingly patient and kind. But Papa found it hard to speak of her.
To change the subject, she said, “Shall I have Gertrude bring a fresh pot of tea? Coffee or chocolate, perhaps?”
“Yes, yes,” he muttered, bending his head. “Whatever you think best.”
Another sheet of paper hit the floor in a...
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