Allison; Taking Control

Chapter 74

“Father, please,” she said gently. “Certainly we can allow the past to be the past. None of us can change who we were or what we may have done in days gone by, but surely we can acknowledge who and what the gallant officer standing before us now has come to be? If what I’ve heard is true, he came here solely to fulfill his duty and you mustn’t condemn him simply for doing so. Just the same, I wish you would not keep me from speaking with him, if only for a short while.”

Blevins let out a sharp exhale and turned his head to glower icily at Caldwell even as Sophie still imploringly cupped his hand in hers. His face bore some of the ruddiness Henry had seen when the man’s ire was raised, yet it was not nearly so pronounced as it had been at times during their interview in the library. The protruding blood vessel in his forehead was conspicuously absent and that was taken as a good sign.

“This is wrong!” he said emphatically.

However, when he turned his head back to see the pleading look