Dark Seduction by Kathleen Korbel

Author:Kathleen Korbel
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2007-08-14T04:00:00+00:00

What had happened to his nice, normal, unbearably frustrating life? Harry wondered. Any other weekend of his life, he would be taking the regulation Saturday afternoon away from Gwyneth to sit with Phyl over the estate books as they tried to squeeze money from the estate like blood from a stone, so the two of them could realize their dream of creating the finest breeding program for Irish-bred thoroughbreds in England. They had already made a great start. Phyl had an unerring eye for good horseflesh. The newest mare she’d chosen, a leggy chestnut with beautiful conformation, strong lines and great, intelligent eyes, was proof of that. Now they just had to be able to afford her.

Now was when he and Phyl should have been figuring out how to do that very thing. Now was when he and Gwyneth should have been putting the final touches on the wedding they’d been planning for the last year.

But Phyl was up settling Gran, and Gwyneth was still in York. On the phone.

“You can’t get back down this weekend?” he said to her, as if she hadn’t just told him that very thing.

“I’m sorry, Harry. Something…big has come up.”

She sounded stiff and uncertain. And if there was one thing Gwyneth could never be accused of, it was sounding uncertain. “Gwyn? Are you all right?”

For that he got a long silence and a funny little huffing sound in his ear. “I think I am, Harry. I really think I am.”

And what the bloody hell was that supposed to mean? Harry closed his eyes so he couldn’t see the account books piled up before him in Phyl’s meticulously kept estate office, and rested his head in his hand.

“I think you have to be more specific than that, Gwyn.”

“But I can’t, Harry. I truly can’t. I think it might be best if we met next week, maybe Thursday after work. We need to talk.”

Oh, God, not her, too. “Talk, Gwyn?”

She cleared her throat. “I know I’m not making much sense right now. I promise I will Thursday. All right?”

Harry rubbed the bridge of his nose. “All right, Gwyn.”

He was just about to say goodbye when her voice came again, and suddenly it sounded small and young and uncertain. “Harry?”

“Yes?”

“Do you think your grandfather could have been right all along?”

“What?”

“Never mind. Bye, Harry.”

Harry hung up and thought seriously about pouring himself a full tumbler of whiskey. What the bloody hell was happening to his world all of a sudden?

Of course, he knew. Nothing had been right since that bedamned fairy had tumbled into it. Nothing looked the same or felt the same. Nothing that had once been enough was anymore.

He lurched to his feet and walked to the window, where he could see the paddocks that held his horses. It had been all he’d ever wanted in his life: the ability to stand right here and see the product of his hard work. The chance to interact with these magnificent creatures, to breed the most beautiful horses in England.

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