Effington 10 - When We Meet Again by Victoria Alexander

Author:Victoria Alexander
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Romance, Regency, Fiction, Historical, General
ISBN: 9780060593193
Publisher: Avon
Published: 2005-05-23T23:00:00+00:00

Sir Winchester Roberts

"Miss Effington—Pamela—I am so pleased you agreed to see me." Alexei crossed the library floor to greet Pamela with an eager step. Her heart fluttered at the look in his eye. "I feared after our ride this morning you would avoid me. You were gone most of the day."

"I was with my family. It was most enjoyable. As for avoiding you—nonsense." Pamela favored him with her brightest smile. One would never have imagined a scant few hours ago she had been ready to throttle him. Of course, he had been ready to throttle her as well. "Besides, I could scarcely ignore a note as charming as yours, Your Highness." She held out her hand.

"Alexei."

"It held the proper tone of apology then?" He raised her hand to his lips.

"Indeed it did."

"An appropriate amount of remorse?" His gaze locked on hers.

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"Appropriate, yes."

"As well as regret." He turned her hand over and kissed the inside of her wrist. "Repentance."

She arched a brow. "It was not that long a note."

"Do you forgive me then?"

"Yes, of course." As much as she would have left her hand in his forever, she pulled it away. "What, specifically, am I to forgive you for?"

He gasped in feigned disbelief. "Why, for my boorish, arrogant attitude, of course. Your secrets are your secrets, your past is your past. And if we have indeed met in the past, and you do not wish to acknowledge it, I can only imagine you have your reasons."

"You can?" She studied him curiously. Alexei did not strike her as the kind of man to give up easily.

"What I cannot imagine is what they are although any number of possibilities come to mind."

"Do they?"

"I have a surprisingly fertile imagination on occasion, Pamela, and I have been allowing it free rein to speculate on the question of why a woman I have met, indeed, a woman I know I have kissed—"

"Because you never forget a woman that you kiss?"

"Exactly."

"Dare I ask what answers you have arrived at?"

"I was hoping you would." He clasped his hands behind his back and paced the room in perfect imitation of a Latin tutor she'd had as a girl. "First, I thought perhaps you had had a horrible accident and lost your memory entirely."

She shook her head. "I don't recall ever losing my memory."

"Ah, but then you would not remember if you had, would you?"

"Excellent point."

"Then I considered the possibility that the kiss in question was an embarrassment for one of us, or both of us, and you have therefore hidden it away with other unpleasant memories of your past."

She stifled a smile. "Not a good kiss then?"

"Rather far-fetched I know, but a possibility nonetheless. Next, I wondered if perhaps my kiss had, well, spoiled you for anyone else, ever, and you had thought it best to put it out of your mind altogether." He glanced at her. "In the interest of avoiding disappointment in the future of course."

"I see." She bit her lip to keep from laughing.

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