Rejection Runs Deep (The Canleigh Series, book 1: A chilling psychological family drama) by Carole Williams (uplifting novels TXT) 📕

Outside rain was threatening.  As Delia crossed the entrance hall and stood on the front steps, a massive black cloud swirled ominously overhead.  She looked across the lawns to the church, thinking of Granny … her father … Richard … all buried in the churchyard.  Then there was her mother … ashes scattered in a Caribbean sea.  How did it go … ashes to ashes …dust to dust?  The very thought was soothing and she was suddenly very tired and couldn’t think any longer.  Her head was heavy and a terrible headache was threatening.  Her left leg ached painfully where Demon had partially crashed onto it and she was surprised it wasn’t broken but the pain was getting worse and she could only hobble now.

She turned from the house and limped back to the stables, exhausted and hardly able to put one foot in front of the other.  But it would soon be over, all this agonising.  Lucy would be okay.  Ruth would no doubt take her under her wing when she recovered from the blow Demon had dealt her.  She wasn’t dead.  Delia had seen her breathing.

She reached the stables and went straight to the tack room, where she knew Perkins had stored a long rope.  She found it quickly and grabbed a bucket standing by the outside tap.  She entered Demon’s old stall and looked at the brick on the wall where she and Richard had stashed the document that had meant so much to her for years.  She pushed it gently.  It moved and there was the piece of paper Richard had signed.  “I, Richard Canleigh, Marquess of Keighton,” she read.  She tore it up.  She didn’t want to read all of it.  It was too painful.

She turned to the task at hand, knowing she had to be quick as someone would have called the police by now and she would be made to pay for what she had done.  Having killed Philip in the heat of the moment would be her downfall.  She couldn’t wriggle out of it this time, not having planned and thought it through meticulously as she had with her brother … and that idiot, Rocky.  No.  They would be after her now for Philip’s murder.  The pain in her heart was agonising.  She hadn’t wanted to kill him.  He was the one and only person she had ever truly loved and wanted to spend the rest of her life with.  Only a short while ago they had been tearing about the fields on the horses and now, he and Demon were dead.  It was unbelievable.

She looked out into the yard but couldn’t see or hear anyone but it wouldn’t be long before the police were here, wanting to arrest her and take her away and she would end up in prison, probably for a hell of a long time.  The thought was unbearable.  Not being able to be out in the fresh air, being cooped up, day in, day out, with other murderers, prostitutes, and junkies.  Oh God, no.  She couldn’t do it.  She wouldn’t do it.  She pulled the stable door nearly shut so that there was just a chink of light so she could see what she was doing but no-one could see her from outside.

It was easy to throw the rope over the beam above her head.  She knotted it expertly, remembering how Richard had taught her when they had been discussing forms of death one day after their mother gave him his skeleton to practice on.  She pulled on the rope.  It was firm.  She stood on the bucket, placed the rope around her neck, and with a mighty shove of her boot, she kicked the bucket away.

 THE END

LAST WORD

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 NOW FOR THE NEXT TWO EXPLOSIVE BOOKS IN THE CANLEIGH SERIES AND THE BIG QUESTION – IS LADY DELIA STILL ALIVE?

DELIA’S DAUGHTER

THE CANLEIGH SERIES – BOOK 2

I’ll never forget seeing my mother, Lady Delia Canleigh, trying to kill Granny Ruth.  I was only four years old at the time and have grown up knowing my mother is evil.  Thank goodness I had good people to care for me and help me trust again.

I’m an adult now and in love with Jeremy but he’s behaving a little oddly now we are married.  I have inherited Canleigh Hall and a fortune to go with it, which was a total shock and a massive responsibility for both of us but I really don’t like the way Jeremy is behaving.  I can’t quite put my finger on it but something isn’t right, especially when that friend of his, Matthew, is around … or when he is near Felix, our butler.  Both men make me very uncomfortable and even a little scared and I don’t know why.

And now I have seen a dangerous glint in Jeremy’s eye, just like my mother’s, which is highly unnerving.  Surely I shouldn’t be frightened of my own husband.  Or should I?

UK: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07G847ZD3/

US:  www.amazon.com/dp/B07G847ZD3/

KATRINA

THE CANLEIGH SERIES - BOOK 3

Ever since I was