Artfully Wicked_'Pon Rep' Regency Rogues by Virginia Taylor

Author:Virginia Taylor [Taylor, Virginia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-05-14T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 9

Winsome decided she had told enough lies to John. She would tell no more, even if he ended up hating her. Then again, she also wouldn’t tell him the truth about the caricatures either. She was doing her best to ease him out of the newspaper but she couldn’t suddenly stop when he had only recently begun to investigate. He would see the connection. In the meantime, she wanted to make love with him in case the whole thing blew up and her last chance of losing her maidenhood vanished.

She watched his groom take her mare with John’s into his stables, and then John escorted her across the lane to the back of his mansion. He walked her through a small kitchen garden and a short path lined with blossoming fruit trees. Petals scattered as they passed. Now that she had cooled off a little after the exercise, the chill of the morning air caused her cheeks to tingle. Her throat dried. Did she really mean to begin an affair with the notoriously rigid Lord Langsdene?

The narrow stone path divided, one side leading to the service area of the house and the other widening into a small but perfect garden. Birch and elder trees shielded the property from the residence next door. Behind the box hedges toward the front of the house, a rose garden, whose bushes had suffered the worst of the frosts, looked ready to take on spring with multiple blooms.

The stone path ended with two steps up to a double set of glass paned doors. “The library,” Langsdene said, opening the door for Winsome.

“I’m beginning to think you have a library fetish.” She stepped into the room, slowly stripping off her gloves.

“If I hadn’t, I am about to. Please make yourself comfortable.” He strode over to the door, which opened into a bright hallway. “Thomas. I am not at home to callers,” he said to the invisible Thomas, who was perhaps a footman. “I have a visitor and I am not to be disturbed under any circumstances.”

“Yes, my lord.”

John arrived back into the room minus his hat and his gloves. He rubbed the back of his neck, glancing at her with an unholy gleam in his eyes. “I should have ordered a tea tray. I can’t offer you anything other than brandy.”

“Perhaps that would bolster my courage.” She sat on the edge of his comfortably cushioned couch, which would be perfect to lie on with a wonderful book, or even a wonderful earl. At this stage, she imagined she could choose either.

“We don’t have to do anything, Winsome,” he said in a careful voice, confirming her thoughts. The sunlight emphasized the severe angle of his jaw and added gold to the tips of his spiky eyelashes. “I would be perfectly happy just to hold you in my arms. You won’t require courage to bear that, I hope.”

“I’m not sure. We will have to experiment.”

He laughed and pulled her up to stand beside him. “You are incorrigible.”

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