A Wedding for the Scandalous Heiress by Elizabeth Beacon

Author:Elizabeth Beacon [Beacon, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-01-05T14:58:12+00:00

Chapter Ten

‘Is that you, Miss Isabella?’ Heloise asked uncertainly from the dusty hallway below. ‘Are you all right?’

Isabella felt her heartbeat start to race at a gallop and told herself of course her personal maid hadn’t heard anything they had said or done up here. When they found time to speak, they spoke softly and Wulf would have known if anyone was listening because his ears seemed to be uniquely honed for trouble whenever he was in this poor old house. There was no need for her to jump guiltily as if they’d been caught plotting a scandal between upstairs and down, but if he wasn’t prepared to own up to what they were, she would have to be guilty about it as well.

‘I’m not quite sure,’ she murmured.

‘If you don’t know, nobody else will,’ Wulf mocked softly, then bowed stiffly and ghosted back up his half of the stairs as if he’d never come this far down them to swap secrets and kisses with her.

‘Perhaps I imagined him,’ Isabella whispered wistfully to herself, then spoke up to reassure her maid all was well and now the sun had come out it wouldn’t be such a hardship to walk back to Hanover Square after all, would it?

Heloise sniffed so loudly Isabella heard her even up here and smiled ruefully at her own reflection in a dusty and badly speckled mirror on the half-landing. She felt so flat and alone now Wulf had withdrawn his vital presence, but she still looked as if someone had lit a good chandelier’s worth of candles inside her. So she took a moment to remind herself he hadn’t even whispered a word of love to salt all that drivel about gossip and duty for her. Apparently even if he did love her he wouldn’t marry her and risk a lifetime of being more important than the polite world to her, so she really had no reason to look kissed and sleepily on fire as well as more alive than she’d felt in six long months while he was away.

‘I suppose we can let ourselves out through the front door, since the latest flood of callers seem to have given up and gone away,’ she said to her maid as she finally reached ground level and hoped Heloise wouldn’t notice her latest employer was nowhere near as calm and carefree as she sounded behind a hastily donned bonnet.

‘I’ll look outside before you walk out there, then, Miss Alstone,’ Heloise said doubtfully, peering through the dusty glass of a Judas opening from another age. ‘I knew it was a reckless notion. A lady has just arrived and from the look of the horses she’s come a fair way.’

‘What sort of lady?’ Isabella asked warily, picturing one of the formidable matrons who had tried so hard to bluff their way through these doors the last few days after staying away for twenty-seven years after the Countess of Carrowe was publicly disgraced by her own husband. Cursing Wulf for

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