Always by Deveraux Jude

Author:Deveraux, Jude [Deveraux, Jude]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub, mobi
Tags: Paranormal Romance
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 2004-11-01T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

"This is the most ridiculous situation i have ever encountered," Adam was muttering under his breath as he expertly handled the horses of the buggy. It was full night, with only a quarter moon, but both he and the horses knew the way to Camwell.

What he was complaining about was the fact that Lavender was in the backseat with Jack. She'd sobered considerably since dinner, but Adam was angry because she had on a costume that they'd found in a trunk in the attic. Jack had called it a "belly dancing costume," and he and Darci had come up with the idea of putting Lavender in it and using her as a diversion for the armed guards. Her lower face would be veiled to protect her identity. However, her extraordinary purple eyes would still show.

Adam had been horrified at the whole idea. There was little fabric in the costume and Lavey's midsection was bare. "She cannot possibly wear that," Adam said. "Her father would call me out. If I allowed this, any judge would order me hanged. Lavender Shay is a young woman of sterling repute."

"Until this afternoon," Lavender said, sleepy-eyed, still a bit tipsy, and grinning wickedly at Jack. She took the flimsy costume out of Adam's hands and declared that she'd like nothing better than to wear it. "And dance," she said.

The men had left the women alone in the attic for about thirty minutes while they dressed—or, in Laven­der's case, undressed.

But Lavender had nearly chickened out. "I can't do this," she said, her hand over her bare belly. "I can't possibly…"

"You can't fool me," Darci said. "You love it! Good grief, but you look like a Victoria's Secret model."

"Do you mean Queen Victoria?"

"More or less. Queen of men's hearts, in this case. Lavey, you look great. Wearing those corsets all these years has given you abs modern women would kill for. Have you ever seen a belly dancer?"

Lavender blinked at Darci as though to say, You're kidding, aren't you?

At Darci's gym, she'd once taken a few classes of belly dancing, so she showed Lavender a couple of moves. Within seconds, Lavender picked it up as though she'd been dancing for years. "This has to be a past life thing," Darci said, and again vowed that if she ever got her powers back, she was going to start look­ing into the past more.

Darci wrapped a long cape that looked like molting seal skin around Lavender's shoulders and they both went downstairs. In the library in front of the men,

Lavender started to giggle. She thought Darci was more odd-looking than she was because Darci was dressed as a boy. She had on plaid wool trousers that reached to her knees, tall socks that disappeared under the trousers, and heavy shoes. On top she wore a white shirt with stiff collar and cuffs, and a pair of navy blue suspenders. She'd happily removed the artificial bun from the back of her head, combed out her hated ringlets, and tucked her hair up under a big newsboy cap.

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