In My Heart
Chapter One
London
Spring 1866
"Have you lost your senses, Lady Alexandra?" Professor
Atler dropped her report on the desk as if the papers Alexandra had given him held the plague wrapped in black ink.
"Someone in the museum is a thief, Professor," Alexandra
Marshall managed without clearing the hoarseness from her
throat. "I have done my research and stand by my findings,
sir. This is not a case of misidentification."
"You are out of line with an accusation of this magnitude.
Bloody Christ ... "
Professor Atler's unexpected blasphemy made her flinch,
and Alexandra knew in that instant what it must feel like to
face the gallows. Kill the messenger had taken on new
meaning.
A dim whale-oil lantern provided the only light in a room
filled with priceless relics. Mummified corpses lay in
wooden boxes beneath glass away from sunlight. She'd long
since become accustomed to the unpleasant musty scent that pervaded this paneled chamber, and drew courage from the
next breath. But as surely as her gaze dropped to the Mogul
decanter in her hand, she knew that she'd sealed her fate.
Her appalling discovery would set the elite academia back
on its heels if word of the thievery ever leaked to the wrong
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