Bound with Passion by Megan Mulry

Author:Megan Mulry [Mulry, Megan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Riptide Publishing
Published: 2015-07-02T04:00:00+00:00

By the time Georgie woke up, it was the unconscionable hour of ten o’clock.

“Well, that was certainly a very brief journey.” Mrs. Daley scowled while Franny opened the curtains and looked nervously over her shoulder toward Georgie stretching her arms and rolling her head from side to side on the pillow.

“Merely a postponement,” Georgie said with a scratchy morning voice. “I will be relocating to Camburton Castle presently. I had a bit of unfinished business with Lord Mayson and Mr. Rushford last night.” Smiling at poor, innocent Franny, Georgie let herself sink deeper into the luxurious linen sheets. Why had she never noticed that they were delectably soft against her skin? In fact, she might need to stay in bed until noon just to give these sheets the appreciation they deserved.

“Franny,” she ordered sweetly, “do be a dear and bring me a tray of hot chocolate, two coddled eggs, four slices of thick toast, and a rasher of bacon.”

Mrs. Daley had her hands fisted on her hips as she watched the young maid make a swift exit from the room. “Since when do you take breakfast in bed like a viscountess?” Daley sniped.

Georgie plumped up two of the pillows behind her and sat up straighter, keeping the bedsheet and coverlet modestly over her breasts. “You are the one who was so concerned about whether or not I was behaving like a proper lady, so you can’t very well take umbrage when I do what proper ladies do.”

“There is nothing proper or ladylike about you this morning!”

Georgie lifted her chin and smiled. She imagined she looked quite a lot like her mother, Vanessa, at her most imperious.

Mumbling something that sounded distinctly like harrumph, Mrs. Daley fussed about the room, plumping pillows on the settee and punctuating her tasks with sighs and exhales of obvious disapproval. When she was ostensibly finished, Mrs. Daley was forced to turn and face Georgie before leaving the room.

As much as the housekeeper probably wanted to depart with nary a comment, such behavior would have overturned every law that she herself had taught Georgie regarding proper manners. “If you won’t be needing anything else, ma’am, I’ll be—”

“Oh, but I will be needing something else, Mrs. Daley. As you can see, I am in desperate need of another bath. Please have one brought up and filled with the hottest water as soon as possible.”

Mrs. Daley appeared to have very many choice things to say to that, but all she allowed herself was, “Yes, m’lady.”

As Mrs. Daley left the room, Georgie was fairly certain she heard her say something along the lines of now I’ve gone and created a monster.

After Daley had left and shut the door behind her with a firm little snick, Georgie got out of bed and strolled over to the large oval looking glass situated to the right of the fireplace. She rarely gazed at her naked self, taking little interest in the curves or texture of her own body. But this morning, she fancied a good, long look.

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