Seventeen

Dalton said nothing so she left his study room and went in search of a stool. Luckily for her, she met Mrs Brittany who helped her to find one. The both of them bickered over who would carry the stool to the study and she won at them end

His head was dipped low as he read through the files on his study desk when she entered. The stool was heavy but she managed to carry it to where she wanted

She climbed on it as she reached out to pull the frame from off the wall. She gradually climbs down with the frame in her hand and walked to the chair opposite him

She sat down and admired his frame. Everyone in America knew of his family and when she was still the young miss of the Enfield's family she has mingled with the rich and has seen him once when he attended an event that her father dragged her too

She was just sixteen by then and all she wanted that night was to be home and reading the new novel that as just been released by her favorite author

She never paid attention to