The sound of the grandfather clock ticking was the only sound I could hear, as I waited for my grandmother to join me for breakfast. After Helena had left yesterday evening, my grandmother and I had a light supper before retiring for the night. I still had not told her about my rendezvous with Sebastian yesterday, nor the fact he had given me a cottage as a parting gift. Our conversation was more focused on the arrival of his estranged mother, who had by all accounts left without even hugging him goodbye as soon as she discovered she was not in the will.
Why has she come back now? That is what I could not fathom, and my grandmother had voiced the same concerns. What was she after? Or was she really here just to watch her son be forced into a marriage that she arranged for him? What was sh
