A Well Favored Gentleman by Christina Dodd

Author:Christina Dodd [Dodd, Christina]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Tags: Historical Romance, SciFi/Fantasy
ISBN: 9781568657172
Google: F4jHHBD-kH4C
Amazon: 0380790904
Barnesnoble: 0380790904
Goodreads: 992218
Publisher: Avon
Published: 1998-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Alanna snapped her gaze to Wilda. “What?”

Wilda seemed to realize she’d said too much, for she squirmed uncomfortably beneath the blankets.

”Maybe it won’t be that way with you. It’s just that he always knows what I’m thinking.”

Alanna smiled reassuringly, and all the while she thought, He knows what I’m thinking, too.

And for once, she had to get out of here before he could torment her. It was her birthday; she had the right to spend it as she pleased. Standing, she took a step backward. “You do display your emotions rather openly.”

“Do I? That explains it, then.” In one of those lightning-quick changes of subject that left Alanna reeling, Wilda said, “Ian has gone with you everywhere this last week, and he has charmed all the servants and everybody likes him. He’s going to be a perfect lord of Fionnaway.”

“Everything he’s done has been very reassuring,” Alanna acceded. “In the daytime.”

“He’s a good dancer, too.” Wilda didn’t seem to notice Alanna’s preparations to go. “Don’t worry about that. I know you must be, but he can fulfill every one of a gentleman’s evening duties, as well.”

Alanna opened her mouth to correct her, and shut it. There was no way she could explain this to Wilda.

Then Wilda shocked her. “I imagine he’ll be excellent in the marriage bed also. That will make you happier, I’m sure.”

“Happier?”

Mouth pursed, Wilda glanced at her sideways. ”You’ve been just a little cranky in the past week.”

“And here I thought I’d been handling it so well,” Alanna said in a daze.

“Oh, you have!” Wilda’s face, usually devoid of thought, gleamed with a kind of canny wisdom.

”There have just been those moments when you looked at Ian as if you’d like to knock him down and beat him to the floor, and he shakes his head at you, and that’s when you get... a little snappish.”

Groping behind her, Alanna found a chair and sank down on it. “So everyone knows?”

“No, silly!” Wilda giggled. “Men don’t notice anything but themselves and what they want. Luckily, Ian wants you.”

“And Fionnaway.”

He did want Fionnaway. Alanna had seen it when they’d visited the farm village. As he discussed the difficulty of raising crops in the stony soil with men, the women told about his previous visits and praised him to her. They’d visited the outlying crofts. He’d already been to each one. And yesterday they’d visited the fishing village.

But there Ian had behaved oddly. They’d stood right on the shore with the fishermen, discussing the currents, the fishing season, and the recent catches. Yet Alanna would have sworn Ian never once looked out at the ocean, and once when a particularly large wave had crashed against the rocks, he’d shuddered as if it had cracked his bones.

He’d wheeled around and headed toward the horses, and the oldest man had taken Alanna’s hand in his own gnarled fist and patted it. “Take care o‘ him, m’lady. He has seawater in his veins, and most o’

them come to a tragic end. But he’ll protect Fionnaway, and ye, and live to tell the tale, if ye just love him enough.

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