An Affair for Aumont (The Lords of Bucknall Club Book 5) by J.A. Rock & Lisa Henry

Author:J.A. Rock & Lisa Henry [Rock, J.A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2022-03-21T18:30:00+00:00

Darling had never written a letter to Lord Christmas, and he wrote and rewrote it several times before he was done. He felt strange while he was writing it, as though he were possessed by the ghost of the fierce adoration he’d once felt for the man. It was adoration that tilted heavily towards worship, and he wondered now if it was only because Lord Christmas had been so unattainable that he had wanted him to begin with. Not that he thought himself some knight on a hopeless but valiant quest for the hand of a maiden, but that his adoration for the man had allowed him to experience all the soaring highs and crushing lows of a love affair, safe in the knowledge that he would never have to kiss him, or disrobe in front of him, or share a bed with him. Darling had been content to pine for Lord Christmas, but since then he’d been kissed, and he’d felt a man’s hand on his cock, and he’d shared a bed, albeit clothed. These things were wondrous and terrifying, and Darling didn’t think he wanted to share them with Lord Christmas at all. He had been in love with an ideal—because what did he know of Lord Christmas except what he had eagerly read in the news sheets? He had perhaps even been in love with the idea of being in love, but now it all seemed oddly unreal, as though he had been an actor pushed onto a stage without being given any lines. The little flutters he’d felt in his belly whenever Lord Christmas spoke to him were nothing at all compared to the depth of emotion he felt when Aumont simply looked at him, his eyes narrow and a sardonic smile tugging up the corner of his mouth.

When he was finished with his letter, he found Aumont leaning in the kitchen yard, glaring at the sunlight as though it had personally wronged him.

“Did you write your letter?” Darling asked.

Aumont straightened. “For what good it will do.”

“Viscount Soulden...” He swallowed. “Do you really think he wishes you dead?”

“I think...” Aumont leaned back against the house. “I think that he wishes Luke were alive but, since such a thing is impossible, then yes, he wishes I were dead too.”

“You say it as though it doesn’t even matter to you!”

Aumont slanted a look at him. His mouth quirked. “Ah, you see, Soulden and I don’t agree on much, but on the matter of my death, we find ourselves in accordance.”

Darling’s blood ran cold, and he took a step closer to the man. “You don’t mean that.”

Aumont’s brow creased. “Perhaps I do not mean it today as much as I meant it a week or two ago. That night I killed Crauford, I thought you would take me to a prison cell. I thought I would end on the gallows. When you let me walk away, do you know what I did?”

“What?”

“I made it around the corner, and then I stood there, it must have been for hours, because I did not know where I should go.

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