A Perilous Flirtation (The Lovelocks of London Book 3) by Felicity Niven

Author:Felicity Niven [Niven, Felicity]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bletherskite Books
Published: 2022-10-19T16:00:00+00:00

Arabella did not enjoy her breakfast. Alasdair did not feed her as he had teased he might. He sat several seats away from her. He conversed politely with Sir Timothy and Mr. Swinton. He did not even look at her.

There had never been such a long morning. Alasdair barely paid her any attention. He was preoccupied, fretting, constantly walking. He probably had never had a day of idleness like this in his life, and he had no idea what to do with himself. His medical journals were all in the carriage.

In one morning, she had caught up on an entire two years of gossip. She still loved Juliana and Rebecca, but to talk to them for so long was wearing when what she really longed to do was to shut herself away with Alasdair, run her fingers through his hair, and continue the kissing from the carriage. Being in a warm house with fewer thick garments might make certain things possible that had not been before. Alasdair might dare more even though he had refused to join her in the bed last night.

At one point, she and Juliana got up and linked their arms and walked the halls and the stairs of the house to get some exercise. Rebecca stayed in the drawing room, looking at an illustrated book with Lady Lyndmouth.

“I wish you so much happiness, Juliana. You married Sir Timothy, after all, just as you said you would.”

“Yes, and I had a dozen new gowns for all the parties before and after the wedding and once married, so many new jewels. And you, Arabella?”

“Me?”

Juliana hugged her arm into her closely. “We are married women now so you can tell me. Is your Scottish doctor all that you thought he would be?”

“He is,” Arabella said slowly, afraid that Juliana might be about to ask questions that she could not answer. “He is and more.”

“Well, he is spying on us.”

Indeed, Arabella turned around and could see Alasdair, down the hall, staring intently at a painting hanging on the wall.

“He doesn’t let you get too far away from him,” said Juliana and led Arabella up the stairs. “He is quite attentive.”

“Yes.”

“And deliciously handsome. I know, of course, what happened to you two years ago and why you disappeared,” Juliana said. “Sir Timothy told me. Rebecca does not know. It has been hard to keep it from her and the rest of my sisters. They all wanted to know why you had left London. But Mama and Papa said, of course, that none of them could know. It wouldn’t be right for them to hear that kind of salacious gossip until they were married. Mama and Papa think now that it was a mistake that they ever let us girls be friends with you. Since your mother was an actress before. They said bad blood will out.”

They were at the top of the stairs and Arabella dropped Juliana’s arm and opened her mouth to defend her mother, herself, her blood. But she could not.

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