Brook Street: Thief by Ava March

Author:Ava March [March, Ava]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: erotic MM, Romance MM
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-03-22T13:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Benjamin leaned back in his chair as Frank, his footman, removed the soup course. Then Frank placed their plates, piled high with asparagus and veal drenched in a light brown sauce, before them and turned on his heel.

“You said you wanted Sam in a position far from home. Do you mind me asking where you call home?” Benjamin asked, once Frank had left the dining room.

Benjamin noticed how Cavin watched him pick up the appropriate fork, and then the man followed his lead and speared one of the rather limp asparagus from the mound on his plate. He could tell Cavin was doing his best to appear at his ease, but the man couldn’t hide the stiffness in his spine. Perhaps he should have moved the meal to the breakfast room. He didn’t consider his dining room grand by any sense of the word—especially when compared to the formal dining hall at Haverson House, the family’s country seat where he’d spent most of his youth—but he could see how the long mahogany table, the crystal chandelier and the massive sideboard dominating one wall could prove a bit intimidating to someone who wasn’t accustomed to such surroundings. And he certainly didn’t want to give Cavin another reason to slip away from him.

Questioning the man likely didn’t help either, but he was desperate to learn more about him. And desperate to discover why it was so imperative that Sam find a position “far from home.” Benjamin hadn’t spotted a mark on the boy, but it had to be something dire to have driven Cavin to seek him out. And he couldn’t help worrying if that something dire affected Cavin, as well.

He highly doubted Cavin would volunteer the information. Perhaps someday, when the man was more comfortable with him, when Benjamin had earned his trust—if Cavin ever gave him the opportunity—Cavin would confide in him. In the meantime, he’d done what he could, taken Sam in, and maybe having the boy at the house would mean this wouldn’t be the last he saw of Cavin.

“I reside east of Mayfair,” Cavin said, after he’d swallowed the bite of asparagus and taken a sip of his wine. “So, your father…duke or a marquis?”

So much for the direct approach. “He was a marquis. My eldest brother has the title now. He spends most of his time at the family seat in Norfolk, though my other brothers and sisters spend a fair amount of time in Town.”

“How many siblings do you have?”

“Five. Three brothers and two sisters. All older than I and all happily married and eager for me to join their ranks. Though it’s become very clear of late that isn’t the course for me.”

“Does it bother you that you—” Cavin darted a glance to the closed door and lowered his voice, “—don’t want a wife?”

“No, not anymore. I used to fret about the possibility a fair bit.” That was putting it mildly. “But I recently decided to stop fretting about it. How about you? Any plans for a wife?”

“No.

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