A Most Unladylike Adventure by Elizabeth Beacon

Author:Elizabeth Beacon [Beacon, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Historical, Regency
ISBN: 9781460349564
Google: urN5BAAAQBAJ
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Goodreads: 14854714
Publisher: Harlequin Blaze
Published: 2014-10-01T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

‘Devil take it, Louisa! You’re not a wild girl clambering about the slums like some sort of human spider any more. You’re supposed to be a lady,’ Kit objected, which might have seemed bad enough, if Hugh hadn’t gone as silent and lethally furious as a tiger grabbed by his tail.

‘If I’d meekly sat there waiting for rescue, then I’d be well and truly wed to the insect-worm by now,’ she defended herself rather half-heartedly, as she remembered that appalling climb across the front of a house with fewer handholds than a sheer cliff might fairly be expected to have.

‘Not for long,’ Hugh finally said with a hiss of pent-up fury that made her wonder if he was a gentleman of his word after all. Of course he was, she concluded as she met the barely contained rage in his icy-blue gaze, he wouldn’t be so irate at having given it if he wasn’t.

‘You wouldn’t have cared if I was wed to him or not, since you hardly knew me then,’ she reminded him, but it didn’t restore him to his usual cynical self somehow.

‘I would have cared because you’re Kit’s sister, but it would be my pleasure to beat Hawberry to a pulp now. And adventurers don’t start molesting females because it suddenly occurred to them, Miss Alstone, so I very much doubt if you are the first one he’s ever used such despicable tactics against.’

‘I’m not a victim,’ she insisted fiercely.

‘And I never met a female less likely to be anyone’s dupe than you are, my Eloise. He chose his target very badly this time,’ he asserted and at last she saw something in his silvered-blue gaze that could have been admiration.

‘Eloise?’ Kit asked as his sharp ears and even sharper brain picked up on that unfortunate nickname again. ‘Who the devil is this Eloise?’

‘I am,’ she said as uninformatively as possible.

‘Oh, good,’ Hugh said irrepressibly and she glared at him.

‘You keep out of this,’ she demanded and her glare was even more furious as his smile became wolfish and his gaze almost molten with heat at the memory of Eloise and her bold ways and even bolder tongue.

‘Spoilsport,’ he muttered a little too intimately and, if he wasn’t conscious of Kit’s eagle-eyed gaze shifting between them suspiciously, she felt it acutely.

‘Later,’ Kit promised ominously and Louisa caught a typical masculine resolve to punch each other until they both felt better flash between them and was tempted to stamp upstairs and let them get on with it, but she didn’t want either of them hurt.

It puzzled her how deeply Hugh Darke’s well-being had come to matter to her in such a short time and she fought a fluffy reverie on the intriguing subject of how instantaneously she took fire whenever he was near. It was almost as if someone had laid such a strong enchantment on them that they were helpless to resist it, but she was such an unlikely heroine of a fairy tale that she reminded herself who she really was and glared at them both.

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