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Lady Alyssa Randall didn't normally eavesdrop, but tonight, with an ear against the solid mahogany door to her husband's study, she couldn't help herself. They were after all, discussing her.

"It's been four years and still the chit has yet to give me an heir. It's time to be rid of her. With my money, mother's will be throwing their daughters at me," Edgar boasted.

"Edgar, I think you should reconsider. If you'll pardon me for saying, maybe it's not her fault. You wouldn't be the first this has happened to."

Alyssa sighed. It wasn't her fault she hadn't conceived a child. Edgar had forced himself on her countless times, but no child was ever conceived. She wanted to fill her home with children just as much as Edgar wanted his heir.

"Mind your tongue Robert. Remember who employs you and keeps you in that comfortable lifestyle you've become accustomed to."

"There's no need to threaten me Edgar, I was not insulting your manhood. I was merely pointing out that her time may not be right for conceiving a child. It was five years before my wife and I were able to enjoy the arrival of our son."

"I cannot wait another year!" Edgar bellowed. My heir needs to be knowledgeable with my company so he will not destroy what I have built. If I do not get an heir soon, I may die an old man before he is of age. Now do as I requested. Get me invited to the best parties of the season. I will be attending alone, which will require you to make excuses for my wife. Now go."

"No, Edgar, I will not," she heard Robert answer bravely. "If you attend these parties alone, people will talk, and I will not be a party to this again. Do you recall the gossip with Lady Penelope?"

"Penelope disappeared on her own. I had nothing to do with that as you well know," Edgar growled.

"If I may say so, you know as well as I that if you are alone at any of the season's parties, the gossip's tongues will be wagging. I think it best you wait this out."

"I will not wait another minute!" Edgar roared, throwing his glass of brandy at the fireplace.

A startled gasp escaped Alyssa at the sound of the shattering glass. Her husband, Lord Edgar was indeed drunk. Again. And in that state, he was most certainly prone to violence in his drunken rages.

She had to get away quickly before she met the same fate as his previous four wives. She had heard stories about their disappearances from the servants, but always thought that it was just idle gossip. Now she wasn't so sure.

As Alyssa turned to leave, the door she had just seconds ago had her ear pressed against, swung open, bringing her face to face with her very inebriated, very angry husband.
"How dare you eavesdrop on my conversation," he snarled.

January

Is it me or did January fly by at lightening speed? I just noticed that tomorrow is the last day of January. Which is a good thing if you live where it's cold right now. The faster the months go the faster warmer weather arrives. And believe me...I'm ready for warmer weather. Yesterday when I left for work, it was 55* outside. This morning when I got up it was 36*, almost a 20* change. Two & half hours later its only gone up one degree. Perfect day to stay inside and work with Alyssa and Charles. Might even work on my website a bit. I know I have to get the Dunning Genealogy site done too.

I'm seriously thinking of entering my first page of Stay With Me. Tho thats only the working title, I haven't gotten far enough into the book to come up with a different one.

The guys are coming back today to finish cutting down the last pine tree. They had to stop yesterday because of the wind. Tho todays breeze is somewhat milder, I can't see him climbing almost 40 feet in the air. I'd rather they come back another day. Don't want him falling out of the tree. That would not be a good thing.

Happy Monday

I really shouldn't say happy cux it's freezing outside. 38* windchill is 32*. May not sound cold to a lot of people, but here in Louisiana, dats cold baby!

It's a holiday today (MLK day). So mail, no running to the bank. I'll just play on the computer all day. Maybe even do a load of laundry.. maybe not... I need a day to goof off and work on my website and genealogy site. Too cold to do anything outside.

I just finished reading Spirited Away, a debut novel by Cindy Miles. A wonderful love story with ghosts ( Think The Ghost & Mrs Muir). At times I forgot the hero (Tristian) was a ghost. His love for the Heroine (Andi) was powerful. I wish the secondary characters could now have their own stories. Especially sweet Jason, and maybe Jamison & Kate. Double kudos to Ms. Miles. I'm ordering her second book from Amazon today.

Things to watch

A real good movie was "Songcatcher". If you havent seen it, go right now and rent it. Thanks in whole to the writer's strike, I've discovered lots of new movies and tv shows. My new favorite tv show is McLeod's Daughters. It's an Austrailian show available on dvd here in the states. Why Hallmark showed it in other countries and not the USA is beyond me. But by the amount of myspace pages devoted to it, it's becoming very popular.

"Sisters of the outback are doing it for themselves when half-siblings Tess (Bridie Carter) and Claire (Lisa Chappell) hire an all-female staff to run their expansive ranch in Season 1 of this Australian drama. Separated as children, Tess and Claire are reunited when their father dies and they inherit Drover's Run. Between shearing sheep and chasing down vagabond bulls, the sisters and their female cowpokes take on life's biggest challenges"

And it's got some nice looking male characters too. BTW Bridie won Austrailia's version of Dancing with the Stars. Lisa has gone on to others things in life namely singing. And such a beautiful voice too. You can do a google search for Lisa and find her music and myspace pages, etc. It was because of Netflix that I learned of it and now have seen 4 seasons. It's at 8 right now and rumored to be the last. I hope they (Hallmark) decided to start showing it here.

First New Post

Wow. I'm an official blogger. Who woulda thunk it? Actually this isn't my first blog, just a new one I hopefully won't have problems with. The last one I had a problem with bots adding crap to it and link to 'those' type of websites. I'm hoping blogspot will solve the problem for me and let me blog in peace.

After being off almost one year after my stroke, I finally got to go back to work. Had to fib a little to my doctors to get them to allow me to return. After working five 12 hour shifts, I'm wondering if it was a good idea. I'm totally wiped out. Fortunately I'm off this weekend to recuperate and can get things done. Groceries don't magically appear in the cabinets, laundry doesn't wash itself. So I'm going to try and get as much done as I can today so I can couch potato all weekend. Lots of movies to watch.