A Love That Never Tires by Allyson Jeleyne

Author:Allyson Jeleyne
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Fifty Forty Productions

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN

“Absolutely not!” Sir Bedford said, taking one look at Patrick, who stood outside their rented rooms the next morning.

Linley followed her father out the door. “But, Papa! He’s come all this way!”

“I don’t care if he crawled here!” Sir Bedford said. “He has no idea what he is doing, and he will only slow us down.”

“He won’t,” she said, tugging at her father’s sleeve. “I promise!”

He glanced up at Patrick. “I’m sorry, Lord Kyre, but you will have to wait here until we return.”

“And when will that be?” Patrick asked.

“A few weeks,” Sir Bedford said. “Perhaps a month at most.”

“I’m not sitting here for a month!” Patrick replied. He struggled to find a better argument than that, and then struck upon a fantastic idea. “I—I’m an investor! I am an investor and I demand to know where my money is going.” When Linley’s father still looked to dismiss him, he continued, “If you don’t show me firsthand how the money I invested is being spent, I’ll tell everyone I know that you’re a fraud.”

Linley gasped. “Patrick!”

“You wouldn’t dare!” Sir Bedford cried.

“I would,” Patrick said in the most menacing voice he could muster. “Try me!”

Linley’s father huffed and crossed his arms. He opened his mouth to say something, but snapped it shut again. After a few shaky breaths, he finally spoke. “Fine. You may come, but you will have to make your own travel arrangements.” Then he stormed off, followed by Archie, Reginald, and Schoville.

“My father is not a fraud,” Linley said.

Patrick slipped his arms around her shoulders. “I know that.” For the first time that morning, he took a good look at her. She wore heavy boots and jodhpurs, much like the ones she wore the first day he saw her in Morocco. Yet it was such a far cry from the silk gowns he’d grown used to seeing her wear in London that Patrick had to take a step back and admire her. She was no frills and no nonsense. And she was absolutely gorgeous. “So, how do I go about making these travel arrangements your father warned me about?”

“Don’t worry. You can ride with me.” Linley took his hand and led him down a path that ran along the edge of the jungle. She pushed aside the branches of a broad, leafy banana palm to reveal another path, only this one was quite narrow, and seemed to sink back into the jungle and fade to nothing more than the morning mist.

“Down there?” Patrick asked.

“If you plan on coming with our team, you cannot be afraid of a little jungle path,” she replied, dragging him down the dirt track. “Where we are going, there are no people. And not everyone who ventures that deep into the wilderness makes it back out.”

Patrick swallowed. “You mean we could…die?”

She stopped and spun around, facing him. “If you are not up to the challenge—”

“I’m up to it,” he said. “I just wonder if you ever stop to consider the risks you are taking.

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