Heaven And Hell novel Chapter 136

"Oh, bloody hell!" Lady C boomed, making my eyes go round as she cursed the words and raised her arms in frustration. I never thought I'd hear her say those words but for some odd reason it was really amusing.

We both looked at the double doors (with Lady C glaring) and saw Cole emerge in a plain white shirt, black jeans that fit in all the right places and white sneakers. He stared at his grandmother in amusement as he neared us, calmly saying, "A lady never swears, isn't that right, Aunt Marge?"

"Oh, pish posh," she snapped, waving a hand in annoyance. "Olivia was doing a rather adequate job-"

"You said I was brilliant!" I accused.

"-a rather adequately brilliant job parading across half the ballroom with a four hundred and thirty-two-paged book."

I blinked at the fact that she knew the exact amount of pages Jane Austen's book had. "At least it's only a few pages," I joked, hugging the book across my chest as I smiled sheepishly.

Lady C's eyes narrowed into slits. "You better hope we keep Pride & Prejudice because I rather feel like switching it up to different volumes of the OED."

"Uh...the OED?" I queried, scrunching my eyebrows.

Cole gave a rare grin. "The Oxford English Dictionary. Or dictionaries, since there are twelve volumes."

"What?"

"These are first editions," Lady C provided, "which, I assure you, my dear, are very heavy."

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