A Convenient Engagement by Kimberly Bell

Author:Kimberly Bell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2016-01-27T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Hannah was startled out of the adventures of Robinson Crusoe by her window slamming up in its casement. A pair of boots swung themselves over the ledge and into her bedroom. If her mind weren’t still trying to pull itself back from the high seas, she would certainly have screamed. Fortunately, the upper half of an extremely drenched Rhone appeared before her good sense, saving the household from disruption. He pushed dripping hair off his forehead and gave her a toothy grin.

Hannah rushed to the window. “Have you completely lost your mind?”

“It’s possible, but I don’t think so.” Gavan grabbed the lap blanket she had dropped in her hurry and scrubbed some of the water from his hair.

“How did you even get up here?” She looked out to the ground below.

He sat down in the armchair she had vacated and pulled off a boot. “I crossed over from my window. There’s a ledge.”

Hannah stuck her head out the window, craning in the direction of his town house. “It’s not even a hand span wide! There’s nothing to hold on to!”

“I assure you, I have excellent balance.” His other boot thumped to the floor.

“It is pouring down rain out there. You could have fallen to your death.” Hannah turned to see his coat landing on top of his boots. “What are you doing?”

“Getting dry. As you cleverly pointed out, it is raining quite vigorously.” Rhone’s waistcoat joined the pile.

Hannah gaped as he stripped off his soaked shirt. Gavan was standing in her bedroom, divesting himself of his clothes. Perhaps she had fallen asleep while reading. It would make much more sense if this was an extremely vivid dream.

He wrapped the blanket around his waist, and his breeches dropped to the carpet with a soggy squelch. Definitely a dream.

He tousled his still-damp hair again, leaving it in disarray. “So. What were you doing?”

“Reading before bed,” she answered, distracted.

“What book?”

“The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe.” Hannah closed her eyes to block out his naked torso so she could think straight. “Why are you here?”

“I was bored. Ewan went to bed already.”

She heard rustling and opened her eyes to find him under the covers in her bed. He was bored? Oh, bloody hell. “I’m not dreaming, am I?”

“Of course not.” He stopped in the middle of fluffing the pillows he had piled up. “Do you usually dream about me?”

“No.”

“But if you did, I would be naked?” He raised his brow suggestively, before languidly stretching in her bed. His satisfied groan reverberated through the room. “Honestly, woman. Where do you buy your furniture?”

“My furniture? Switzerland.” Hannah’s entire thought process had fogged over when he put his arms behind his head. The corded muscles of his bicep and forearm had stolen what little reason she had managed to gather since he came through her window.

She stood there staring at his arms, for God knows how long, before she realized he had stopped asking her questions. She shifted her gaze up to his face and found him looking back at her with amusement.

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