A Bride Worth Taking by Rebecca Connolly

Author:Rebecca Connolly
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Phase Publishing LLC
Published: 2017-06-30T18:00:00+00:00

Kit knew he was in trouble the next morning when Marianne came down to breakfast fully dressed, hair pulled back a bit severely for her, and her eyes already full of indignation. She glared at him as if he had somehow greatly offended her, though he had no idea what he was supposed to have done between yesterday and today.

After all, he did save her, and he did go to a lot of trouble to get her back safely and took great consideration for her health.

And he did sacrifice almost an entire night of sleep on account of his mutinous memory replaying a certain part of the day repeatedly and in great detail, at much slower speeds.

His inability to catch his breath after leaving her room, even in his own hot bath, was the chief reason why he did not go back to check on her. He was feeling things again, and he could not feel things for her.

Oh, he meant what he said to her. He did need to forgive her, and he was working on it. Her humiliation and sorry state yesterday had shaken him and he would never forget the look on her face. He really should talk to her about it, find out how bad it was, but he couldn’t bring himself to do that. He might find himself going to his knees before her and saying all sorts of things that he would never be able to take back.

She did deserve a second chance, and he would give her one.

Just not until he could get control of himself.

After all, she hadn’t changed all that much. The way she looked at him at this moment proved that. He’d been damn heroic yesterday and she was mad at him. No doubt he’d forgotten to bring her flowers or warm her bed or walk her down the stairs so she would not injure herself.

How dare he.

“Good morning, Marianne,” he said pleasantly, rising from his chair and giving her a bow. “How did you sleep?”

“Like hell,” she snapped, sitting in her chair with a thud.

He blinked in surprise. Marianne did not swear, as far as he knew, and yet… “I am sorry about that,” he replied sympathetically as he retook his seat. “Are you taken ill? The physician is not far, I can send for him if you wish.”

“I am fine,” she replied, waving a footman over to scoot her chair in for her. “And if I wasn’t, I would tell Mrs. Dinstable so she could give you a report of it.”

He tried not to smile as he took a bite of his eggs. “You sound as if you might be getting a cold.”

She gripped her fork so tightly he thought it might bend. “My nose is a little stuffed up,” she said slowly, forcing a smile that was more of a grimace, “but it is nothing I cannot bear. A token of my little adventure yesterday.”

“That is a pity.”

“Isn’t it?” She resumed eating and then made a face. “I forgot to thank you last night for… you know.

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