The Crimson Bed

Two artists, Fred and Henry, immersed in the Pre-Raphaelite art movement, with its yearning for romantic escape from the materialism of Victorian society. Two men deeply in love with their beautiful models. But every heart hides a secret and both couples have put certain shameful events behind them, events that, if exposed, could threaten their blissful new life. The Crimson Bed, a family heirloom passed down through the female blood line since Elizabethan times, brings with it ancestral secrets that will eventually affect Fred leading him into the darkness of London slums and a very different world to that of his peaceful home. Passions escalate as he becomes increasingly jealous of his wife’s closeness to her handsome godfather, Lord Percy Dillinger, and when shocking truths finally come to light, their lives will never be the same again . . . Adult Sexual scenes The Crimson Bed created by Loretta Proctor an eGlobal Creative Publishing signed author.

Loretta Proctor · History

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70 Chs

Chapter 62: An angry Fred follows Ellie

When Fred arrived home at noon, he discovered to his dismay that Ellie and the children had fled the nest. Mrs Thompson had no idea that her mistress had even left the house, busy as she always was in the kitchen. The maid had been sent forth on some errand at the time the carriage arrived so was also ignorant of the fact that Ellie was no longer there.

As it happened the person who had seen her set off with Mulhall and the children was the gardener who had been busy pruning some bushes at the front of the house.

'Big carriage came for 'em, sir,' he said in answer to Fred's urgent enquiry. 'Came about nine o'clock this mornin' to take 'em away. They took a big trunk so I reckoned they was going away for a goodish bit.'

Fred tried hard not to make a fuss. He had no desire for gossip to spread.

'How foolish of me,' he said. 'I forgot they were to set off a little earlier. Thank you, Sims.'

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