A Christmas Seduction by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-12-21T00:00:00+00:00

“ARE YOU OUT OF your mind?” Hugh asked, making sure his tone reflected his outrage.

Lucas merely grinned and shrugged his shoulders in response.

“What do you think you’re playing at?”

“I’m not playing at anything. Not yet anyway,” Lucas grinned, every inch the rake.

“Please, spare me the details of what you do when you’re alone with a woman.”

“Why should I? You could pick up some tips.”

Hugh snorted.

“The day I need tips from you on what to do with a woman, is the day hell freezes over.”

Lucas didn’t respond with a witty rejoinder the way Hugh expected him to. Hugh watched Lucas closely.

Something was… off.

And he suspected it had a lot to do with the icy Lady Bright.

“Luc,” Hugh began hesitantly, not entirely sure how to broach the subject. “You’re starting to seem… taken … with the lady. Like your interest lies in something other than seduction and battle.”

Hugh watched the panic momentarily flare in his brother’s eyes, before Lucas schooled his features into impassivity once more.

“You’re wrong,” he said softly, and his tone told Hugh more than anything else that he was most definitely not wrong.

Oh, God. This was a bloody disaster.

Hugh groaned aloud and shook his head.

“’Tis painful to watch you fall, brother,” he said, “but I will not follow you on your descent to Hades.”

“Oh, calm down Hugh. You are becoming hysterical.” Lucas was enjoying this far, far more than he should.

Hugh snatched the tumbler of brandy that Lucas held out to him and downed the contents in one gulp.

“You’re asking me to spend an evening in a darkened maze with the little viper just so you can seduce her sister, am I right?”

Lucas’ smile widened.

“Come now, you’re not going to try and make me believe it will be a hardship? Moonlight, darkened corners, nobody around to witness your actions?” Lucas asked cajolingly. “We’ve all seen your interest in her, Hugh. You may as well have a sign painted.”

Hugh suppressed a shudder.

“Usually I wouldn’t hesitate to agree with you wholeheartedly, brother. But the lady we’re talking about is Louisa Bright. Moonlight, darkened corners and no witnesses is not only a perfect setting for seductions…” Hugh swallowed noisily, “…it’s also perfect for a murder.”

Scowling at Lucas’ raucous laughter following his statement, Hugh turned his back to look out of the window that overlooked the formal gardens, and stopped dead.

Was that Louisa?

He squinted and stepped closer to the window.

Sure enough, there was her golden head bobbing up from the bushes.

What on earth was she doing?

He watched in amused captivation as she spied him standing by the window and raised a hand to beckon him outside.

“What has caught your attention?” Lucas asked, stepping over to stand at Hugh’s shoulder.

Hugh watched as Louisa’s eyes widened a split second before her head disappeared once more. He could assume, then, that she didn’t want his brother knowing she was out there.

Biting back a grin, he turned to Lucas to make his excuses.

“Nothing, I just fancy a walk.”

Lucas’ eyebrow rose in disbelief.

“You? Walk?”

“Yes, me walk,” Hugh huffed. “It’s not that bloody unusual.

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