Weekend Writing Warriors #8sunday
The Weekend Writing Warriors share 8-10 sentences over the weekend. Here are mine from the start of a historical novel set in Victorian London called THE PAINTED HEART.
This is at the start of the book when Miss Elzpeth James, Governess to the Hurley twin’s collection of girls, is showing her charges to a potential benefactor, Mr Blackburn the illegitimate brother of Lord Sinclair.
London, 1898.
Elzpeth stepped back, took out the small note pad she kept in her pocket and wrote what she hoped would be helpful advice.
‘It works best if you ask them to come forward and tell you a little about themselves.’
She passed the note off to a servant stationed at the side and then moved back into position at the back of the viewing platform.
Mr. Blackburn’s eyes flicked over to her as she moved. Elzpeth froze.
That gaze was sharp, a harsh and penetrating force that sent shards through her chest and pierced her to the spot.
She was saved from his perusal when her note arrived. He opened it, read it and then screwed it up letting it drop by the chair as he looked at her again. This time there was something far more disturbing about the way he looked at her, something she couldn’t quite understand that made her skin feel suddenly hot and tight over her bones.
© Elsa Holland
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I never knew that someone dropping paper could be so devastatingly sexy. Great snippet hot but subtle – testament to the mastery of your craft.
Thank you as always Catherine 🙂
Brilliant descriptions: “shards through her chest” and “made her skin feel suddenly hot and tight over her bones”. There is no denying the impact he has made on her.
Thx Kim!
I love how the dangerous tension, is the beginning of this attraction, not overwhelming Hollywood goo goo. Its dark d dangerous. I want that! I think???? Im addicted, more more.
Thx Naomi <3