A Lady Never Tells (Women of Daring) by Lynn Winchester

Author:Lynn Winchester
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Entangled, Amara, Enemies to lovers, protector, historical, historical romance, Regency, England, Britain, spies, spy, viscount
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC (Amara)
Published: 2019-08-29T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

He’d had no idea what to expect when he’d taken the risk in calling Victoria out, but what he hadn’t expected was the woman standing before him. Fierce, armed, and with black paint around her eyes. It made her look deadly, stunning, all the more alluring. It was utterly disconcerting, this attraction to her, even after all that had occurred since meeting her.

Victoria pouted, her sapphire eyes snapping with fire, a flash of guilt pinking her cheeks.

She cleared her throat and dipped her chin, hiding her face from him.

“What I am doing…I have my reasons,” she said, before lifting her chin to meet his gaze again.

“And what reasons are those? It is obvious you think I have nefarious connections and that I am planning something.” He crossed his arms over his chest. “And what am I supposed to be planning?”

Gritting her teeth until the muscle in her cheek jumped, Victoria seemed to hold her breath. He could tell she was thinking hard, and he wondered if she were conjuring up an excuse.

“I cannot tell you. Not now,” she offered.

He opened his mouth to argue, but she stayed his words with a finger to his lips. A thrill of something hot and silky moved through him.

“Meet me at my home tomorrow. I will expect you after the luncheon hour.” She picked up her mask from where she’d dropped it during the reveal and slapped it against her thigh to remove the dirt. Rather than slip it back on her head, covering the strange cap she must have used to hold her hair, she slipped it into her waistband instead. Once again, his gaze flicked to the glimmering blade of her sword. He’d never seen the like.

Perhaps he’d ask her about it tomorrow.

“I will be there,” he replied. “And be prepared, Victoria.”

She arched a finely shaped eyebrow. “For what?”

For what, indeed? He watched her, standing there, clothed in black, as she watched him.

“Now you aren’t going to answer?” she asked, a sneer on her lips—lips that looked lush even when downturned. He wanted to gather her into his arms and kiss that sneer from her lips, and then keep kissing her until they were both breathless.

“I will answer in good time.”

She sniffed, then muttered so quietly, he hardly heard her, “What am I to do with you?”

Instead of responding to her, he moved around her, her lithe body tense, and gazed out into the night.

What to do with me, indeed… What was he to do with her? She wasn’t the typical London debutante, that much was plain, but she was still a lady, still tied to the dictates of society—whether she liked it or not.

Beyond the lamp overhead, it was dark as pitch. Suddenly, the reality of his situation dawned. He was alone in an alley with an unmarried lady, who was dressed in trousers, brandishing an exotic blade—and she’d just saved his life. If there wasn’t cause to think of her before, there certainly was now. He would never forget this night, not for as long as he lived.

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