Page 184 of The Defiant Curse

She shook her head.

“No, mostly they were very intimate letters between the two men. Duncan mentioned loving her, and ‘his child’, but that’s it.”

Something still felt off to her.

She just didn’t know what.

It was right there, just out of her grasp, and she didn’t have a clue what it was.

“We need to figure out what happened. I’ll bet this castle on it that something pushed Duncan to tell her to go home. IF that even happened. Remember, you only have letters from her perspective. Did he ever ask her to leave?”

They considered it.

“Not that we saw,” Graham admitted. “There was just a letter where Ceit cursed his bloodline for asking her to leave.”

Yeah, this was off.

Elizabeth needed more.

“Continue, Gabby, and work our way back to this. Let’s put a place marker in this spot for later. What else do we have?”

Gabby did.

“Well, just what was said about the curse.”

If they could trust that, but now, she wasn’t sure.

“Anything else?”

Gabby considered it.

“We know that she has her baby, and right after, she mailed her father a letter. She wanted to come home. She didn’t want to be here anymore, and he got pissed. In his return letter, he was ANGRY. He told her to bear the Lord a daughter.”

Finn paused.

“The Granndachs never had daughters. They only ever had sons. Wouldn’t he know that?” he asked.

Elizabeth shrugged.

“Got me. I’m new here.”

Ethan stirred his sauce and dropped pasta, seeing Elizabeth had finished frying the chicken cutlets.

“What happened then?” he asked.

Elizabeth knew.

“He showed up, and as she was about to take a swan dive out the upper tower window, he confronted her. When they found her body, her face was smashed in as she was lying on her back.”

Ethan made her stop.

“Uh, you can’t have both unless you hit your face on the way down. If she landed on her back, she was hit in the face. The tower isn’t that high where she could change falling positions midway down.”

She was aware.

Gabby laughed.

“She said the same thing.”