A Bit of Mistletoe by Ava Stone

Author:Ava Stone [Stone, Ava]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-310-31568-8
Publisher: Ava Stone

Seven

The sound of a crackling fire woke Berks from his sleep. He opened one eye to find one of the chambermaids poking at his hearth with a damned fire iron. He flinched and his blood ran cold at the sight.

“Out!” he barked, which made the maid squeak in surprise and the fire iron clank to the floor.

The girl spun around, her face ashen white. “My lord?”

Damn it all! He hadn’t meant to scare the girl to death. But that bloody fire iron! The image of Richard’s lifeless body lying in that coffin flashed again in Berks’s mind. “Sorry,” he apologized. “But do go. I think the fire is fine as it is.”

She bobbed her head, quickly righted the fire iron, and then hastened from the room as though the devil himself was chasing after her.

Berks closed his eyes and wished he could wipe Richard’s image from his mind and fall back to sleep. He had been sleeping so peacefully, enjoying a very nice dream where he was just about to unbutton Miss Birkin’s chemise, and… Berks groaned. The very last thing he should be dreaming about was Miss Birkin’s chemise. She was so lovely, though, and she smelled so divine. Even in his dreams her scent drove him half wild.

It didn’t matter, he silently chastised himself. In Cambridgeshire, he’d made a pact to stay away from marriageable girls, but… Well, Miss Birkin wasn’t really a marriageable girl, was she? Miss Birkin was thoroughly ruined, actually.

Berks’s eyes flew open once more. He’d made a pact not to marry, but he hadn’t made a pact not to take a mistress. Perhaps… He shook the thought from his head. Harrison would murder him on the spot if he suggested such a thing to the girl, at least if his brother’s warning from the night before was any indication. It still rung in his ears. It was probably best just to put Miss Birkin from his mind… Well, just as soon as the holidays were over. Until then, he’d have to be a pleasant host. She was his guest, after all.

Surely, he was capable of being around the girl without thoughts of unbuttoning her chemise dancing about his mind.

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