Aladdin by Selena Kitt

Author:Selena Kitt [Kitt, Selena]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Excessica Publishing
Published: 2019-07-03T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 4

Libby looped her arm through Bart’s as they walked through the gardens in the moonlight. They had developed this habit of taking a nightly walk some time after dinner. Tonight, they had spent the evening talking to her grandmother and one of her friends. The two women had drunk a great deal of wine and had become boisterous and raucous, talking about “the good old days.” It sounded to Bart like Libby had almost certainly gotten her rebellious streak from her grandmother.

It was one of those nights where, in the city, the heat of the day would radiate off the pavement until morning and people wouldn’t be able to sleep. It was cooler at the edge of the city, on the grounds of the estate—but not much.

“Oh, I didn’t tell you, guess who I saw when I went into town this afternoon?” Libby’s voice jolted Bart from his thoughts.

“Who?”

“Count Gironde.” She gave him a sideways look, as if Bart was supposed to know who that was, but he was drawing a blank. “You know... the man I was supposed to picnic with the day I met you?”

“Oh, the married one.” Bart nodded. “A count, eh? I guess you’ve taken a step down with me.”

“Hardly.” She laughed. “Although I do admit, all the men who have courted me in the past have come from old money. You’re the first one from new money.”

Old money. New money. The fact was, Bart was from “no money.” But he wasn’t going to tell her that.

“But I have to say, all those men from old money, they sure had old ideas of who a woman should be.”

“Did they?”

“I’ll say. Take Simon. He was French. I thought someone French might be more liberal. But Simon told me if I got behind the wheel of that Bugatti, it would be over between us.”

“Did he? And what did you do?”

“I said goodbye to Simon right then and there,” she said. “And I got in the car.”

“Sounds like you.” Bart chuckled. “Wait a minute—that wasn’t the car you crashed, was it?”

“Heavens no! That was later. I mean, Simon was a fine fellow in his own way, but not worth wrecking a car over.”

They both laughed.

Libby stopped at the top of a hill and Bart stopped with her. There was a whole curved valley spread out below them. A creek babbled away in the darkness, and in the distance a rambling brick wall faded off down the valley. Above, the stars spread out like white pepper in the night sky, and the wide belt of the Milky Way Galaxy was clearly visible.

She turned her face up to him. Pale, lightly powdered, a beautiful face. Now, a familiar face. He had come to adore her round little face, her smiles, the way she tilted her eyes up at him. He’d never seen a girl more lovely than the one in front of him now. That would normally not really affect him one way or another. There had been plenty of pretty women who had come in and out of his life.

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