Keep Me (Sinful Manor, #1)

by Sara Cate

“That’s the one, on the left,” Aaron says, looking up from the map on his phone to the large brick mansion on the hill. “That?” I reply in shock. “Barclay Manor. That’s it,” he says, staring out the window. Rain pelts against the windows of the car. “Aaron, you said your family had a house in Scotland. That is a castle.”

Aaron pulls off on the side of the road, and I turn toward him in confusion. “What are you doing? Drive up there.” “I can’t,” he argues. “That sign says Private Property.” My jaw drops. “So what? It’s not like people actually live here.” “That’s exactly what private residence means, Sylvie.” “We came all this way.” “So? What would I tell them? They’re not going to let me in just because my great-great-grandfather once visited here in the summer and wrote his book on the typewriter.”

He’s so dramatic. I don’t say a word as he pulls the car up the long gravel drive, through an open gate framed by two tall brick structures on either side. The one on the right displays the words BARCLAY MANOR 1837, and the one on the left has the PRIVATE PROPERTY sign.