Dylan Wallace assigned Edward to the crew of the Emperor, docked in Bristol harbour and leaving in two days. He returned home and told his mother, father and Caroline.

( There were tears, of course. )

It was barely a day later when Edward decided to return to Hawkins Lane, where he knocked on the door to request an audience. Who should answer but Rose ( Read more... )

One morning, Edward awoke from a drunken stupor, blinking in the morning light, only to find Caroline already dressed for the day ahead.

“I don’t want you to go,” she said, then turned and left the room.

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One night Edward sat in the Livid Brews. ( He'd like to say he was not his usual self, but the sad fact of the matter was that he was. )

"Is it dangerous, Edward ( Read more... )

What a scandal it had been: Caroline Scott marrying beneath her would have been cause for gossip enough. That she had spurned Matthew Hague in the process constituted quite a stir, and some time after, Edward wondered if that scandal might ultimately have worked in their favour, because while he steeld himself for retribution, for over a month, he ( Read more... )

( In which Edward is a stalker, and Matthew Hague proposes to Caroline. )

"Matthew is going to ask me to marry him tomorrow morning ( Read more... )

Edward was starting to drift away into sleep when he heard it, coming from the window. A tapping ( Read more... )

Fandom had, for some time, put ideas of ambition and future in Edward's head, like perhaps he really was intended for more. After the events of the past few weeks, however, he had began to wonder - perhaps his life was here, in the beer suds, around the sloppy grins of easy women with hardly any teeth and even fewer morals, and by the time of his ( Read more... )

( In the meantime, Edward's thoughts returned to Caroline. )