Devil's Lady by Patricia Rice

Author:Patricia Rice
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, (¯`'•.¸//(*_*)\\¸.•'´¯)
ISBN: 9780451403254
Publisher: Onyx
Published: 1992-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

“How do I look?”

Thomas watched with jaded eye as Sarah twirled around the plainly furnished room. He had made her his mistress for her buxom good looks, but somehow they did not quite fit in this new role. The modest, high-necked gray stuff bodice she wore still seemed to fill to overflowing, and the heavy skirt did not disguise the provocative sway of full round hips. He wanted to lay her down on the carpet and throw her skirts over her head. That wasn’t the kind of reaction one expected a meek Methodist virgin to provoke.

“Wear a cap down around your ears and bind your chest,” he suggested coldly.

The woman gave him a heavy-lidded, pouting look that did not diminish the issue. When he snarled, she flashed him a smile. “Do we have a problem, darling?” she purred. “Do you wish to solve it now? Or shall I practice being your little cousin awhile longer?”

“You’d better take this seriously,” Thomas warned. “If we fail, I’m out a vast amount of wealth, and I shall be forced to find a rich wife.”

She snuggled onto his lap and threw her arms around his shoulders. “Don’t you think it would be much more believable if you told your uncle that we were married? Then he could start looking forward to that heir, and he wouldn’t mind at all when you look at me like that.” She nibbled at his ear and squirmed deliberately against his rising lust.

Thomas shoved her from him and stood up to pace the room. “If it’s marriage you want, then you’d better behave. You must play the part of mewling Methodist, not wanton hussy. Now, give me the story you’ll tell the old man.”

Giving a sigh of exasperation, she stood and put her hands behind her back, her downcast eyes studying the floor. “I went to stay with my old nanny. I was scared, and she took me in for the winter. I don’t know London and didn’t know how to find my parents’ families. Then Nanny got sick, and I stayed with her until you found me. When Nanny died, you helped me bury her, then brought me back here. But I don’t know any of you. How do I know you are who you say you are? I want to see Mr. Wesley.”

Thomas gave a grim smile at this last innovation. “Very good. Challenge the old bastard before he can challenge you. I like that. You’ll have him eating out of your hand. That might almost do the trick.”

She threw her head back up and braced her hands on her hips, completely undoing the image of a moment ago. “Shall we try it, then? I’m tired of these dreary quarters. I’d like to see the life of the rotten rich for a change.”

Thomas reached for the linen covering her voluptuous bosom. “When the time’s right, my little dove, when the time’s right. I have to pry those papers loose from the bank first. That bastard may cost me a fortune, but those papers will do the trick.

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