Escape with A Rogue by Sharon Page

Author:Sharon Page [Page, Sharon]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Regency romance Historical Romance Prison Break Romantic suspense USA Today Bestseller Stephanie Laurens Liz Carlyle
Publisher: Sharon Page
Published: 2012-07-20T04:00:00+00:00

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The last thing Jack intended to do in the south field was kiss Lady M.

But the first thing she did, after he led her horse Penelope behind a small group of trees, was pull off his cap and touch his hair. Her hand skimmed gently over his shaved head. He could focus on nothing but the wave of need that washed through him.

“It dramatically changes your appearance,” she declared.

He’d never expected to feel like this when he saw her again—as though his place was at her side. “I dyed it with henna.” He took the cap from her and clamped it on his head. His years in prison had changed his appearance—he was more grizzled, more scarred, much thinner. It was enough to disguise him. Fortunately there were only two grooms left who had been in the stables two years ago, both were older men with poor eyesight. “I did love your hair,” she said softly. He had to clench his fists to keep from embracing her. From dragging her into a kiss that would set them both aflame.

“Oberon didn’t hurt you?” he asked, trying to hang onto cohesive thought. “I kept watch over you as long as I could.”

“How did you escape the chains and the armed men? That should have been impossible.”

“It wasn’t so complicated. I asked for a smoke—and did so repeatedly until one of the guards decided he yearned for one himself and went to the kit on his saddle. That left me with one guard. Fortune was with me, as he was the one with the keys and easily overpowered. I unlocked myself and got out before that one came to and the other returned.”

She licked her lower lip and his hands gripped her horse’s reins with white-knuckled force. “You should have run, not come here. Oberon left three men on the estate to watch for you —”

“I know. What did they do to you?”

“Nothing. Mr. Oberon escorted me with respect—he didn’t touch me. His colleague, Captain Livingston, made my skin crawl. He looked as though he wanted any excuse to slit my throat.”

She spoke with her familiar disapproval, but tension emanated from her. The old rage welled up in him, the impotent anger that used to come when he watched his mother take a man’s blows. “Did Livingston touch you?”

Panic flashed in her eyes and she grabbed his wrists as though preparing to stop him from punching something. “I chose the wrong words. There’s no need for violence, Jack. Neither man harmed me. If you confront either of them, you’ll get yourself killed.”

She was afraid he would rush off and kill someone. Did it mean she was afraid of him? In the stews, a man was safe when others feared him. But he couldn’t stand for Lady M. to be afraid of him. He knew it was stupid—after all, he’d worked hard to make her distrust and despise him. “I won’t. Did they threaten you?”

“Yes, with imprisonment. Livingston advised me I might avoid hanging or transportation.

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