Between the Devil and Ian Eversea by Long Julie Anne

Author:Long, Julie Anne [Long, Julie Anne]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780062118110
Amazon: 0062118110
Publisher: Avon
Published: 2014-03-25T07:00:00+00:00

TANSY MANAGED TO convincingly sparkle through the rest of the afternoon.

But the day had gone on too long, and the supreme effort it took to charm had given her a headache, as if she’d drunk too much champagne, which she hadn’t. She suspected it was a bit of a spiritual hangover, which had rather a lot to do with Ian Eversea’s brutally accurate summary and dismissal of her.

She sat down hard, propped her chin in her hands and tried hard to hate him, but all she could muster was a sort of resigned, honest misery. She felt rather like a shoddy magician whose secrets had been exposed. She couldn’t fault him, not really. She in truth rather admired it, which added a bit to her misery, given that she was fairly certain he now didn’t like her at all, if he’d liked her just a little before.

But . . . though there had been a moment when he helped her shoulder the gun, where the air seemed to go soft and dense as velvet, and she could have sworn their breathing had begun to sway at the same rhythm, like two rivers joining, and she’d strangely never felt safer or more peculiarly imperiled. And she’d wanted time to stop then, to freeze the two of them the way the entire crowd had frozen, so she could lean against him, because that’s where she’d always belonged, or so it seemed. And to just see what that moment was all about.

And at the recoil he had pushed her upright as if she’d been something aflame.

She thought about this. And decided she unnerved him, too. At least a little.

It cheered her, but it made her uneasy as well.

You mean because they like you when you do it?

Aargh. Her cheeks went hot again.

Know a bit about being a frightened little girl, Tansy?

She dropped her hot cheeks into her hands. But then she raised her head slowly and took a long steadying breath. Because regardless of what he thought of her, it was strangely a relief to be known.

Oddly, she wasn’t tempted to throw her slippers at the wall this time.

The thing was, there were things she now knew about Ian Eversea that he probably didn’t even know he’d revealed. That he might not even know about himself. There was a certain advantage to being underestimated, at least for a time, and the advantage was that she could surprise him into a flare of anger—disconcerting as it had been to be in the path of those blazing eyes—because she’d prodded some sore place in him. She took no pleasure in hurting him, but there was still a little bit of a thrill.

And despite her resolve, she found that the hunger to know him had in no way diminished.

He might not have the slightest interest in Richard III, but she’d found a way into Ian Eversea, anyway, quite inadvertently.

Tansy gazed at the wall.

She unfolded her sheet of foolscap and spread it out neatly and read it to herself.

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