Ana Seymour by Father for Keeps

Author:Father for Keeps [Keeps, Father for]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Even after they’d made tender love when they’d arrived home in the predawn hour following the dance, Kate was too embarrassed and upset to tell Sean what Charles had said to her. Of course, the man had been drunk, and was therefore perhaps unaccountable for his words, but they’d been said and she’d heard them. Nothing could alter that.

Had Sean really confided such a thing to his friend when they were in the mountains? Had he thought that she was an easy and loose woman, suitable for a quick romp while he was in town, and nothing more? The way he’d left her so abruptly would tend to validate Charles’ account. But he had, after all, come back for her, though it was months later. If he’d once thought her a trivial light o’ love, he must have changed his mind somewhere along the way. He’d come for her with a ring, ready to propose marriage. The memory was enough to allow her to block out his friend’s cruel words and welcome him into her arms.

They’d stayed in bed most of the lazy Sunday, bringing Caroline in to join them around noon when Sean had a tray of breakfast sent up to them.

For the second time, a Nob Hill gathering had ended disastrously for her, but for the moment, Kate tried to forget about the rest of the world and concentrate on her little girl and her husband. Late in the afternoon, they got dressed while Caroline napped, then took her and Nonny for a drive down to the wharf, where they supped on freshly caught shrimp.

It was a happy day, almost enough to erase the distasteful moments with Charles Raleigh. But the next morning when Sean left early for work, Kate once again felt the uncertainty creeping over her. She’d been accepted, even admired, by the Nob Hill elite, but it would never truly be her world. There would always be someone to remind her that she was not “one of them.”

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