To Walk in the Sun (Wiggons' School for Elegant Young Ladies - Book 1) (38 page)

Vincent turned Tess toward the house so they
could bid the crowd goodbye. The last to go were Natalie, Claudia,
Sophia, Eliza and Rosemary.

“We need to hurry,” Eliza insisted from the
door. “It is going to be dark soon.”

Everyone turned to look at her.

“Didn’t you hear?” Her eyes were wide with
concern.

“Remember, we were not going to put stock
into such rumors,” Sophia warned in a low voice.

“But what if they are true?” Rosemary
whispered.

“What has the three of you worried?” Tess
finally asked. She would miss living with them on a daily basis and
hearing what their vivid imaginations conjured up.

“The ghost,” Eliza announced.

“Ghost?” Vincent laughed.

“I am serious, Lord Atwood.” Eliza planted
her hands on her hips, affronted that he would make light of her
concern. “The Ghost, they are calling him. He comes out after dark
and stops the unsuspecting. He takes nothing, but looks inside the
carriages. If there are ladies present, he chooses the prettiest
and kisses her.”

“A kissing ghost?” Vincent’s shoulders shook
with laughter.

“This isn’t something to be made light of,”
Rosemary defended.

“I am sorry. You are correct. If there is a
highwayman in the area, then we should all be alert, whether he be
alive or dead.”

Tess glanced over to Natalie. As she feared,
her friend’s face had gone deathly pale. Tess approached and drew
her to the side so no one could hear their conversation. “I am sure
it is just a coincidence,” she offered.

Natalie gave her a weak smile. “You are
right. What are the chances of there being another kissing ghost?
Besides, the one I knew died long ago.”

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Jane Charles has lived in the Midwest her
entire life. As a child she would more likely be found outside with
a baseball than a book in her hand. In fact, Jane hated reading
until she was sixteen. Out of boredom on a long road trip she
borrowed her older sister’s historical romance and fell in love
with reading. She long ago lost count of how many fiction novels
she has read over the years and her love for them never died. Along
with romance she has a passion for history and the two soon
combined when she penned her first historical romance. What turned
into a hobby became a passion, which has been fully supported by
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