Deck The Halls With Love: Lost Lords Of Pembrook Novella by Lorraine Heath

Author:Lorraine Heath [Lorraine Heath]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, Historical Romance, England, Love Story, Regency Romance, cookie429, Kat, Extratorrents
ISBN: 9780062219336
Google: S5M7FzFGdoAC
Goodreads: 15820005
Publisher: Avon Impulse
Published: 2012-12-17T14:00:00+00:00

Beyond the glass and stone, it sounded as though demons trapped in hell howled.

“It’s only the wind, Merry.”

They were enclosed in a cocoon of warmth provided by the ragged draperies. Their clothes were resting near the fire. They appeared to be somewhat dry. She should probably gather up her things and get dressed, but she didn’t want to move. She thought she might like to stay here forever.

“I’ve heard this manor is haunted.”

“Is that why you hesitated to stop here?”

She nodded. “I know it’s silly to believe in ghosts, but there you are.”

“Nothing about you is silly.”

She couldn’t deny the pleasure his words brought. “They’ll have noticed I’m missing by now—have noticed we both are, no doubt.”

“They won’t come looking yet. Their visibility is no better than ours.”

“When my father finds us here, he’ll insist that we marry. Being alone with a gentleman in an abandoned manor during a storm is more scandalous than being discovered in a man’s arms near a trellis of roses in a dark corner of the garden.”

With his finger trailing along her neck, he slid her hair over her shoulder and pressed his lips to her nape. In spite of their warmth, she shivered. “But does he hold your heart? You captured mine from the beginning.”

Twisting around, she looked sharply at him. “Then why did you give your attentions to Lady Anne?”

Cradling her face with one hand, he stroked his thumb along her cheek. “Out of a misguided notion that I owed it to my brother.” He held her gaze, and she found herself swimming in the depths of his brown eyes. “He wrote me a letter as he was dying and asked me to see to her happiness.”

“But he died long before you gave me any attention.”

“Unfortunately, the officer who had the letter did not deliver it until this past spring. He feared it getting lost, and so he brought it himself. If not for me, Walter would not be dead.”

Her heart went out to him at the fissure of guilt that ran through his voice with his words. “You did not make him ill.”

“No, but he’d have not been there had I possessed the funds for him to live like a gentleman. The income from my estates is dwindling. I couldn’t support him in the manner in which he wished to live, so we agreed that a commission in the army was best. Not an hour passes by that I don’t miss him, not a day goes by that I don’t regret not finding another way. I could have married any number of women with dowries that would have provided me with the means to live more luxuriously. Instead, I was holding out for love. I was waiting for you.”

She did not move away when his lips joined hers. His tongue stroked the seam of her mouth, urging her to open it for him. She shouldn’t have, but she did, because if she was honest with herself, she would admit that she had been waiting for him as well.

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