He Dropped Three Women in One Night, Then We Took His Estate novel · Chapter 19 of 32
Chapter 19: The Stove Door
At two in the morning the dower house was asleep except for the stove.
Calista came down for water and found Evander sitting at the kitchen table in his shirtsleeves, with the lamp turned low and a ledger open before him that he was not reading.
He looked up.
The spectacles were off.
Without them his eyes were a plain warm hazel, tired and very direct.
"You should be in bed," she said.
"So should you."
"I couldn't sleep," she said.
"Nor I."
She stood in the doorway in her grey wrapper with her hair loose.
She could have taken her cup and gone.
She stayed.
The stove ticked, and the chalk on its black door glimmered, four lines and a scrawled correction.
"Elowen means to answer the Earl herself on Thursday," she said. "She would not let any of us go up with her."
"She asked me to read his marriage paper aloud to her three times," Evander said. "She did not flinch once."
"Aldric cried," she said.
"I heard from Miss Dunmere."
"I did not feel anything. I thought I would feel something. Pity, or rage. I felt as though I were watching a man I used to know get into a boat," Calista said.
"That is not nothing."
"No."
She crossed the floor and set her cup on the table.
"Evander. I'll tell you what I haven't told anyone. I am not afraid of him any longer. I am not afraid of her. I am only afraid that I have spent three years being useful and no one will ever want me for anything else."
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