Enchanting the Earl (The Townsends) by Lily Maxton

Author:Lily Maxton [Maxton, Lily]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Earl, historical romance, highlands, veteran, enemies to lovers, castle, scotland, historical, Scandalous, regency, romance, Lily Maxton, opposites attract, Entangled, injured hero
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2017-04-16T18:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

“What a lovely little town!” Georgina exclaimed as she, Annabel, and Eleanor walked together along the seashore. The bay, dotted with fishing boats, lay ahead of them. Next to the bay a semi-circle of white-washed buildings comprised the town of Oban.

If Annabel needed something quickly—or relatively quickly—like tea or sugar, she went to Oban. When Annabel had told the others she was going to make a trip into town to buy a few things, they’d decided to accompany her…albeit reluctantly, in Theo’s case. At first, she’d assumed it was because he didn’t want anything to do with her, after the kiss, but later she realized her assumption was wrong.

Or at least not entirely correct.

As they’d approached the town, she couldn’t help but note the tension in the way Theo held himself—the stiffness in his shoulders and the set of his jaw. He was riding just ahead of the cart, and she caught glimpses of his face as he scanned the buildings, taking in the streets—not in the casually interested way a tourist would, but as though their lives might depend on Theo knowing the landscape if something happened.

He’d seemed much more at ease on the openness of the moors, where it would be difficult for someone to approach without being seen.

She wondered if he always felt like this in new places. Her heart pinched at the thought.

Annabel knelt down every now and then to pick up a seashell, enjoying the way the pebbles crunched under her kid leather shoes.

Her mind inevitably drifted from Theo to what had happened in the stables. She wondered if he had relived their kisses in his mind as often as she had, if it had kept him awake last night. She wondered if he regretted what he’d said.

Her fingers dug into her palms and she shook her head, frustrated. She was doing it again. Just as she had the night before, her racing thoughts were centered on one unfathomable man.

It shouldn’t have mattered. She shouldn’t have cared. Her confidence wasn’t some fickle thing to be built up or torn down by a man’s opinion.

Except, that wasn’t quite the truth when it came to one specific man.

“Did you hear me?” Georgina asked.

Annabel blinked at her guiltily. “I’m sorry. My thoughts were wandering.” And she would never, ever tell Georgina or Eleanor what she’d been thinking about.

Georgina pointed across the street to an inn with a slate roof, white facade, small sash windows and smoke curling from the chimney. “Do you think that’s where Theo and Robert went?”

“Oh, that’s Mr. MacPherson’s place,” Annabel said. She enjoyed talking with the inn’s proprietor when she came to town. He was a lively older man who enjoyed gossip and knew more history than anyone had a right to.

They waited until a cart passed and then dashed across the street, avoiding a few piles of horse dung that hadn’t yet been swept away. They stepped into a spacious lodging room that smelled like roasted meat. Mr. MacPherson, old enough to

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