CHAPTER EIGHTThe next day Lord Brookfield was up early and after a light breakfast promenaded around Malvern with a spring in his step.
He was convinced that Miranda was now within his grasp and very soon they would be in his carriage and on their way to Gretna Green to be married!
He had planned his whole strategy the moment she had escaped from him in London.
Although he realised that abducting Miranda from Ledbury Hall would not be possible, he believed his best course of action would be if could lure her to somewhere quiet during the day and then carry her off.
But first he needed the help of the Earl.
He smiled to himself sinisterly as he considered Lord Templeton’s part in the abduction. Yes, that was the sweetest part of all – he would lead her to him!
‘I will pay him a call t
