Harley Street (Richard and Rose) by Lynne Connolly

Author:Lynne Connolly [Connolly, Lynne]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9781605046426
Publisher: Samhain Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2009-08-05T04:00:00+00:00

When I woke the next day, I found Richard awake already. He took me into his arms and bade me good morning. “I’m sorry about last night. You know I don’t doubt you, don’t you?”

“I know. Otherwise one of us wouldn’t be in this bed.”

He drew back and met my stare. He wouldn’t seduce me into forgiving him. I wanted this clear. “Richard, I left a note that went astray. You should have trusted me enough to know I would do nothing to risk my health or the health of our baby.”

He dropped his head so his hair grazed my chin. I couldn’t see his eyes. When he lifted his chin again his eyes held misery. “I know. My lamentable temper has led me into trouble more than once. As it has now.” He sighed. “I have never felt so protective towards a woman before. I want to surround you with fine cotton, swaddle you like a baby and sometimes I go too far. Especially when I’ve drunk too much.”

My mouth firmed. “I did notice that.”

“Yes. I will try not to drink too much.”

“And try not to suspect me of recklessness when it is you who is reckless.”

“Yes. I swear it.”

We sealed the bargain with a kiss, a solemn kiss of an oath given and accepted.

He studied me without speaking for a moment. “I knew I was right.”

“In what way?”

“When I said on that first morning, that I’d never get used to waking up with you. It lifts me to see you when I wake, even like this, even when I have a humble apology to make.”

I smiled and stretched up to kiss him. “Make sure there aren’t too many of them. Do you think Brangwyn forgot to give you the note?”

“I met him in the hall as I came in. I bade him good evening and asked where you were and he said you’d gone out with Tom Skerrit, dressed for a masquerade. No, I don’t think he forgot.”

I was bewildered. “Then why would he do it?”

He didn’t answer immediately. He drew his hand gently up my arm, touching my breast as if by accident, then lingering there. “I think he wanted to create trouble between us. If we trusted each other any less, he would have done so.”

“Why would he do that?” I asked but then, as I slipped my hand around his waist, the realisation dawned. “Oh no,” I breathed and I looked up into his face. “Not Brangwyn. He’s Julia’s spy? He knows exactly where we’re supposed to be, when—” I broke off, appalled at the thought. “We’ll have to dismiss him immediately.”

“Oh no. I stayed awake for some time after I came to bed, watching you and thinking over the events of the evening. Brangwyn told me enough to stoke my anger, but instead of believing you had gone off with Tom on some clandestine affair, as he obviously intended me to, I was only concerned for your health. That was what caused my anger. Brangwyn withheld the note and gave me misleading information.

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