By Love Undone by Suzanne Enoch

Author:Suzanne Enoch [Enoch, Suzanne]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: England - Social Life and Customs - 19th Century, Man-Woman Relationships, England, Regency, Aristocracy (Social Class), General, Romance, Historical, Regency Fiction, Fiction, Love Stories
ISBN: 9780060875251
Google: b9lULujlKAUC
Amazon: 0060875259
Publisher: Avon
Published: 1998-01-02T05:00:00+00:00

“She what?” Rafe asked, leaning over the stall door.

“She hit him,” Quin repeated, hanging up Aristotle’s bridle. “Laid him out flat.”

“That’s extraordinary.”

“It’s a deuced lot of trouble.” The marquis glanced up at his younger brother and shook his head. “She’s a deuced lot of trouble.”

“Then you probably shouldn’t have kissed her.” Rafe grinned. “Not that I blame you. She’s a diamond of the first water.”

“Which doesn’t help me any.”

“From what you’ve said, she seems to know what she wants, Quin. Are you so certain Langley’s not the best place for her?”

He’d asked himself the same question over and over. And he kept coming up with the same answer. Or at least, the answer he was willing to voice aloud. “She was wronged. If she wants to go back, that’s fine. But she should have a choice about it. I won’t have some loudmouthed jackanapes driving her off.”

“Fair enough, but if she goes about hitting every rake who insults her, she won’t last long here, anyway.”

The beginning of an idea tickled at Quin’s mind. He needed to think it through a little further, though, before he dared bring it up with Maddie. “How was Africa?”

“Full of angry Dutch settlers.” Rafe shrugged. “And hot as Hades.” He backed up as his brother exited the stall. “Is she the reason you’re not at Whiting? I laid in wait for two hours there this morning, until I finally accosted your groom and he said you were here.”

“I’m trying to be the buffer between Maddie and Father. Does he know you’re back yet?”

“No.” Rafael paused, letting Quin leave the stable ahead of him. “Warefield, you haven’t set a date for you and Eloise yet, have you? Because although it’s not really my place to say, have you considered another reason you might have Maddie staying h—”

“You’re right,” Quin said sharply. “It really isn’t your place to say. And no, I haven’t spoken to Eloise about our marriage yet.”

“That’s a fine welcome home, brother,” Rafe said, unruffled. “I imagine I’ll receive more of the same from Father.”

“He wants you to resign your commission,” Quin informed him, grateful they’d returned to a safer topic. “The idea of your being accepted into the Coldstream Guards was that you’d be stationed in London—not in Africa.”

“That was Prinny’s idea. I think he got tired of my being more carefully protected than he was.”

“Nonsense,” Quin countered. “You volunteered. You as much as said you wanted to go to Africa.”

“His Grace didn’t want me in Belgium, either. I got a nice, shiny medal for that.”

“You nearly got yourself killed.” Quin gestured at his brother’s face. “And His Grace doesn’t want you risking your hide.”

“What would I do here?”

“I don’t know,” Quin answered, slowing as Maddie reappeared from behind the line of rosebushes. His heartbeat quickened at the sight of her, as it had every time since he’d first set eyes on her. “Something less dangerous.”

“Yes, I can see myself in the priesthood,” Rafe returned. “Miss Willits, surely you’ve not been assigned the

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