"sorry, what did you say?" ( anthony for edwina )
smile flickers through her expression, as if not quite sure whether to stay or go, much like the girl wearing it. she wasn't sure she made the right decision joining him in his study tonight. it was his space. the house he called theirs, always proud when he said it had been waiting its new viscountess, but the study was wholly separate; the one room in the house that was his and his alone, and he certainly spent enough time in it for her to question whether he had a door hidden in there somewhere.
she only entered it for good reason. but she had lingered for no particular reason at all, finding, now there, not so strange he liked the room.
❛ only that i hadn't seen this before. ❜ her smile makes a choice, and it spreads back across her features when she turns to him, a ledger in her hand. ❛ it is your aunt's hand-writing, is it not? it's the ledger she left your father with all her ideas for the estate, she told me all about it last week over dinner. ❜