An Impossible Match: A Regency Historical Romance (The Hasting Sisters Book 3) by Sandra Sookoo

Author:Sandra Sookoo [Sookoo, Sandra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dragonblade Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2024-07-11T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Once Grantford left—after promising to spend a week in the area—Thomas still couldn’t concentrate on his sermon writing. The girls hadn’t returned, neither had Genevieve, and it was too early for dinner, so he took himself off for a walk, hoping the exercise would calm the restlessness of his body and quell the heat in his blood.

He didn’t know how long or how far he’d walked, but his mind hadn’t cleared, nor had he succeeded in removing the governess from his thoughts. And damn, it was deuced hot.

A tiny miracle occurred when the sun ducked behind a large cluster of fat, fluffy clouds, but he wasn’t so fortunate about his thoughts. As if he’d conjured her from thin air, Gigi appeared on the road ahead, obviously coming from the direction of her father’s property.

He tipped his face to the sky. Why are you testing me, God? Was he to go through a set of trials like Job? Or perhaps he would be turned into a pillar of salt like Lot’s wife for disobedience. Neither were favorable choices.

It wasn’t until she came much closer that he spied a trace of moisture on her face and lingering in her eyes beneath her bonnet. When she finally glanced at him, she offered him a wobbly smile. “Hullo, Thomas.” Dust and dirt had marred the hem of the pale blue walking dress as well as the toes of the half boots she wore. “Uh, have the girls been escorted home yet?”

“They hadn’t been when I set out.” He came a few steps closer and peered more fully into her face. “Are you well?” Worry knotted in his gut. Was she still out of sorts about what occurred—or not—between them the other night? It seemed he was largely still a coward, for he couldn’t bring himself to ask. “Has something happened with your parents?”

“Everything is fine.” When she attempted to move past him, he stepped into her path.

“You are either not skilled in lying or you are too upset to try.” Not able to remain parted from her, he gently rested a gloved hand on her shoulder. “What has you at sixes and sevens? I want to help if I can.” Perhaps focusing on her problems would make him forget about the unrelenting lust that flowed through his body with all the heat of lava.

“I don’t know if anyone can help right now.” She sounded so forlorn that his chest tightened, and his heart squeezed.

“Tell me what happened.” Then he took her hand and threaded it through his crooked elbow as he set them into motion on the empty road. “Don’t think of me as your vicar; I am merely a friend.” A friend who compromised the hell out of her and they hadn’t talked about that since the night.

Gigi’s hand trembled on his sleeve. “Once the girls were safely at their friends’ farm, I walked over for a visit with my parents, since seeing them on Sundays just doesn’t feel like enough.”

“That’s understandable.” For the most part, he remained silent, for he didn’t wish to break her concentration.

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