Steve Shell
speaker
3,136 appearances
10 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 10 Sep
Steve Shell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Being delivered to his father's estate a decade ago still seemed like a dream.
He remembered the wonder and gratitude he'd felt when he was brought through the majestic front gates of Penderin Hall to meet his father.
Almost as well as he remembered the sting of disappointment when he'd learned he was not in fact a legitimate son of this great and revered bloodline, but a bastard resulting from an illicit affair between his father Haman and his uncle Mordecai's wife.
Most of the family had believed he was the child of Mordecai and Delilah, but the two of them had tragically passed away in the years while Solomon had been away, and when he returned to the fold, his true father thought it was best to clear the air and claim him as his own.
Haman's own wife, Ada Jane, had died of the influenza, and the two daughters she bore him, Constance and Persephone, had been married off years ago.
Solomon had never met his half-sisters, though he did receive the occasional holiday greeting or postcard in the mail.
His father had never called him a bastard and had fully intended on marrying Solomon's mother after Mordecai had been murdered just a few short months before her tragic fall down a set of rickety cellar stairs.
Married to his mother or no,
Haman Locke was proud to be Solomon's daddy and had declared him his heir.
If anyone else in the family had a problem with that, he'd made it clear they could take it up with him.
But thus far, no one had the stones to challenge his father or his grandmother.
Solomon couldn't say which of them they or he feared more.
Today was a day that he had both worried about and wished for in roughly equal measure.
his father and uncle had worked for the better part of two years to find him a suitable match.
The two of them had made it clear that romance had little to do with high society marriages.
Passion and ardor led to unplanned children and other unfortunate circumstances.
His own existence was an ample evidence of that.
And as much as he loved and respected his father and uncle, their outlook on marriage struck him as remarkably archaic and high-bound for men of industries.
None of the potential matches they had presented to him thus far had proved suitable, and he'd come to dread these introductions.
On the other hand, he had always hoped he would one day see Rachel Harlow again.
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