Highway Revenge by Millard Nadine

Author:Millard, Nadine
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: romance, regency, regency romance, romance regency, regency 1800s, regency england 1800s, regency romance story, london romance, regency love story, london times romance
Publisher: Blue Tulip Publishing

“What the hell did you do, Jonathan?” Andrew bellowed as Beast picked his way through the darkness back to where Jonathan still waited.

“Well, I thought I had saved you from being held up but, since you went hieing off after your attacker, I’m going to assume that that’s not what happened.”

Jonathan sounded furious, and Andrew felt like wringing his neck.

“You could have killed her,” he continued to shout in a rage.

“What? Her?” Jonathan repeated incredulously.

“Yes, her.”

“But — but isn’t that the same highwayman who robbed you only a few nights past?”

Andrew drew a steadying breath and forced himself to calm down.

In truth, if he had come upon such a scene, he would have shot first, too. But damn it! She could be seriously hurt. And she was alone. Alone and God only knew where.

“Yes. The very same. Except, contrary to what your father insisted on saying to save face, the robber was not a burly man but a slip of a girl,” he explained, his tone still fraught with tension.

“What the devil were you doing with her, then?” Jonathan barked.

“I was trying to convince her to give up such a dangerous occupation. And it was working, too. Until you bloody well shot her.”

“She was holding a gun to your chest, Andrew.”

“She was playing, Jonathan.”

The men glared at each other, neither one willing to concede that the other wasn’t the most unreasonable man to ever walk the face of the earth.

“I want to ask why you were so interested in the girl, but I’m not sure I want to hear the answer,” Jon spoke at last.

“For God’s sake, man. There was nothing going on,” Andrew said without guilt, for it was the truth. No need to say that the primary reason for such a truth was Jonathan’s cousin.

The waters this evening were muddied enough.

There was silence once more before Jonathan suddenly turned the air blue with an oath a sailor would have been proud of.

“Are you telling me I shot a girl?” he asked, sounding slightly sickened.

“Yes. That is what I’m telling you.”

“Christ,” Jon whispered.

“Indeed,” Andrew bit out.

“Well, it’s not as though I did any damage.”

Andrew raised his eyebrows.

“I’m sorry. No damage? I know we’ve been in some rather violent scrapes before, Jon, but last I checked, bullets were still considered to be something of the damaging variety.”

Jonathan scowled at Andrew’s sarcasm.

“I mean, I didn’t shoot to hurt. I shot to shock. I had thought that we would be hauling a hardened criminal in front of the magistrate.”

Andrew almost sagged with relief at Jonathan’s words. Jonathan’s skills with a gun were second-to-none. If the man said he didn’t cause serious injury, then he didn’t.

“What now?”

Andrew looked off in the direction she’d run, but, really, what could he do?

“Nothing, I suppose,” he answered both himself and Jonathan.

“So, shall we return to the house?”

“Yes, I suppose we should.”

They turned and made their way back.

“You wouldn’t have found her, you know,” Jonathan said.

“I know.”

“She got too much of a head start, Ash, and presumably she knows these woods better than you do.

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