A Heaven on Earth by Barbara Cartland

Author:Barbara Cartland
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-908411-80-8
Publisher: Barbara Cartland.com

CHAPTER SIX

“No!” Aurora cried, struggling to free herself from Lord Moreton’s tight hold on her arm.

“Ah! Why do you hide yourself away like this?”

He slurred, his lisp more pronounced than ever and he lunged forward through the door, so that his face came close to hers as she caught the smell of wine on his breath.

“How could you cause me such unendurable pain?” he whinnied. “You are such teasing capricious creatures – you women! You know only too well that to deny us is to increase our ardour for you!”

Lord Moreton’s grip on her wrist tightened sharply and Aurora bit her lip from the pain.

He seemed to be extremely short of breath and was puffing and panting as he loomed over her.

“My angel, you know that you are mine,” he hissed, “mine for now and forever.”

He leaned forward as if about to kiss her, but then suddenly swayed backwards again.

‘He must be extremely drunk,’ Aurora decided, ‘he can hardly stand up.’

She stopped trying to free her arm from his grip and leaned into him, as if she also was trying to snatch a kiss.

“My lovely one,” he howled. “I knew that I should come to you and that then you would see sense.”

The faint light of the candle in her bedroom showed her that he was smiling broadly as he dropped her wrist and reached out with both arms to pull her body against his.

Aurora jumped backwards dodging out of his grasp and Lord Moreton swayed heavily in the doorway. As he struggled to keep his balance, she seized a cushion from the sofa and hurled it at him.

“You little minx!” he yelled, falling back onto the door and catching hold of the cushion, emitting one of his high-pitched squeaking laughs that so irritated her.

“Why, you fancy a little sparring match, do you?”

He tossed the cushion aside and then raised his fists and made a couple of boxing gestures.

“Come along then, come and let’s see who shall prevail!”

He laughed again and took a distinctly wobbly step backwards towards the door, as if he was trying to build up momentum to take a run at her.

Aurora saw her chance and seizing the door handle, shoved the door against his portly stomach, pushing him back outside onto the landing.

“Faugh!” Lord Moreton exclaimed indignantly as the heavy door knocked the breath out of him.

Aurora leant against the wooden panels with all her strength, struggling to shut him out, but Lord Moreton still had one foot inside her bedroom, and he was a bulky heavy man while Aurora was a slim light girl.

She put her shoulder to the door and braced herself, pushing with all her might, but the door would not close.

Desperately she looked for a chair or anything that she could use to hold the door, but there was nothing at all within reach.

“Open up!” Lord Moreton shouted. “I will not be treated like this!”

The panel beneath Aurora’s shoulder shuddered as he struck it with his fists.

She could not hold the door any longer and giving up the struggle, she ran across the room and took refuge behind the sofa.

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