Harlequin Historical May 2019--Box Set 2 of 2 by Laura Martin

Author:Laura Martin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

Emily put on one of her new hats and peered at herself in the mirror, turning her head to all angles to study it. It was a Gordston’s purchase, a confection of pale straw, feathers and silk roses in shades of pink, from lightest shell to bright fuchsia, frivolous and pretty, and very French. Was it perfect for a day at the races? She didn’t want to look too—English. It would be bad for business. And somehow she didn’t want to share the hat from Chris yet. It felt like something just for her, not for business at all.

But Emily suspected it wasn’t business she worried about. It was Chris. Would he think she looked pretty in the hat?

She sighed and tore off the chapeau to toss it on to the bed. A few curls of hair fell from their pins and she impatiently pushed them back. It was ridiculous to think about Chris that way. He was never serious; she couldn’t be, either, not about him. They were much too different that way.

And yet—yet she could never quite forget the way it felt when he kissed her, so sweet and light and marvellous, as though she was floating free up into the sky, heavy earth falling away. She closed her eyes, blotting out the bright morning sun from the window, and in that darkness she saw again the summer day by Miss Grantley’s lake. The maze. Chris’s face, all golden like a young Greek god, his smile as he leaned towards her, the feel of his lips on hers...

Emily shook her head. Once, she had thought herself infatuated with that pig of a man Hamilton, after only one mediocre kiss. Yet Chris’s touch made her feel so very much more than that, made her forget herself entirely. Sometimes it didn’t feel like he was just pretending to court her.

And that made Chris so much more dangerous than anyone else ever could be. He made her long for things she had never dared think about, things like fun and romance and true understanding, when all she had ever really had, ever needed, was work. And now she had the League, the chance to help other women make better lives for themselves.

She knew Chris was not like most men. He had a sunny, boyish carelessness about him that seemed to make him see the world differently from most people. He saw people as just people, not men and women, and was interested in them as they were. But all men, all marriages, expected a woman to retreat, to become less, to take care of home and hearth and give up her essence. Di and Alex had found another way to be in love, but it was all so complicated and difficult.

Emily sighed. A day at the races didn’t seem to warrant such worries, she reminded herself. It was just a bit of fun. And no one was better at fun than Chris. Surely she deserved a day away from work, from the League? She just had to be careful.

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