How to Plan a Wedding for a Royal Spy by Kelly Vanessa

Author:Kelly, Vanessa [Kelly, Vanessa]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, General, Historical, Fiction
ISBN: 9781420131277
Publisher: Zebra Books
Published: 2015-01-06T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Will braced a hand next to Evie’s head, taking in the sweet flush that gave color to her pale, perfect skin. Her golden eyelashes fluttered as she cast her gaze down toward the vicinity of his feet. When she slowly sucked in a breath, the tops of her generous breasts lifted in tempting white mounds over the modest neckline of her dress. All he had to do was dip his head and he could easily trail his tongue across that glorious expanse of feminine flesh.

Christ.

What the hell was he thinking? He’d come down here to see how she was, not to seduce her. Eden had lobbied to be allowed to follow her sister, of course, but her father had prevented that with only a few soft-spoken words. Lord Reese rarely threw his weight around in his household, but when he did, everyone paid heed. His lordship had then taken Beaumont off to speak with Lord Templeton and Mr. Garvey, while Lady Reese had commanded Alec and a protesting Eden to join the other guests. She’d sailed away with the two of them in her wake, pointedly leaving Will to his own devices.

And leaving him in a quandary, as well. Lady Reese’s actions had clearly indicated that he was to follow Evie in another obvious effort to throw them together. And as much as her agenda made him wary, following Evie was exactly what he wished to do. He’d seen the sweet girl’s fury give way to hurt and shame, and he’d seen the tears start to well up in her big eyes, only half-hidden behind the glint of her spectacles. At that point, he’d wanted to take both Lady Reese and Michael Beaumont by the scruffs of their necks and knock their bloody heads together. Evie’s mother was a harridan par excellence, and Beaumont didn’t have the good sense to know when to keep his fool mouth shut.

It had taken him only moments to decide what to do, Lady Reese and her blatant attempts to match-make be damned. Evie was his oldest friend, and the image of her alone in the library, crying her eyes out over her mother’s cruelties, gutted him like a rusty blade.

Alec, naturally, had tried to stop him. In fact, he’d even attempted to follow but Lady Reese had clamped onto him like a bulldog with a bone.

Will wasn’t overly concerned with her ladyship’s clumsy attempts to turn him into an eligible suitor for Evie because Will knew nothing of the sort would happen. He would simply comfort his friend and escort her back upstairs when she was ready to return to the party.

But that was before he saw her, the candlelight turning her hair into a gold waterfall and softly outlining the lush body that was clad simply in a dress of pale green silk. She’d turned with a gasp when he came into the room, but then stilled, her shoulders pressed into the bookshelves as if she unconsciously sought to brace herself. Though

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