Craving by Carole Mortimer

Author:Carole Mortimer
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: 0
Published: 2018-12-06T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 8

“I think you are making a mistake by moving in with Weston.”

“I am not moving in with him,” Sophia dismissed, glancing at her cousin as he sprawled himself across her bed, leaning on one elbow, watching her as she finished packing her trunk. “We have merely decided that I will be able to get to know Clarissa better and more easily, and she me, if I am staying at Weston House for the next few days.”

“We have decided, or Weston has?”

“We,” she insisted firmly.

Robert snorted. “You were leaving London altogether until he arrived and persuaded you otherwise.” He frowned. “Do you no longer trust me to protect you while you are here, is that it?”

“Of course it is not that.” She abandoned her packing to cross the room and sit on the bed beside him to give him a hug. “I do not know what I would have done without you these past ten years since…well, since,” she concluded tightly.

Robert’s mouth thinned. “That a friend of mine should ever have—”

“Let us not talk about that time again now,” she pleaded.

He forced the tension from his shoulders at her obvious distress before giving her a teasing smile. “Weston looks at you as if he would like to eat you.”

She grimaced. “Or he is simply suffering from a severe case of indigestion.”

Robert sat up. “My God, Sophia, I do believe you are actually blushing merely at the mention of the man’s obvious interest in you!”

Sophia knew she was, could feel that burn in her cheeks.

Was it possible she really was falling in love with Magnus Weston? A man she had met for the first time only two days ago.

Despite her abrupt departure from London and Society all those years ago, Sophia had not been without prospective suiters during that time.

When she initially moved to Portsmouth, several young gentlemen living in the area, learning of the presence of a new teacher at the school, had called and attempted to court her. Advances Sophia had no trouble rejecting, and without a moment of regret.

Latterly, primarily since she took over as headmistress of the school three years ago, several male relatives of her pupils had shown an interest in her. Not all of them honorable. Again, it was an interest she’d felt no hesitation in rebuffing.

The same was not true in regard to Magnus.

Why it should be so different with him, Sophia did not care to look at too deeply. It was enough she knew that it was. “You are the one who insists on continuing to talk about Magnus,” she reproved Robert, “despite my obvious reluctance to do so.”

“I admit to being intrigued as to what is going to happen once you are moved into Weston House.” His eyes danced with mischief. “I shall expect you to give me a full report of Weston’s prowess in the bedchamber once the two of you are lovers.”

Sophia winced. “I shall do nothing of the sort.” After all, she already knew that Magnus’s lovemaking took her to heights she had never dreamed of.

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