Huntress by Susan Copperfield

Author:Susan Copperfield [Copperfield, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pen & Page Publishing

Montana’s queen didn’t look pregnant to me, but when we arrived at the castle, she intercepted our car before Geoff managed to park, tugged on the door nearest Eva until Geoff unlocked it, and snagged Eva by the elbow. She barked a few orders, and everyone made way.

Eva squeaked, and I added startling her to my list of things to do often.

“I’m sorry,” Montana’s king mumbled, sliding out of the SUV. “Next week, she’ll start running.”

“Pardon?”

“She’s seven weeks pregnant. At eight weeks, she develops an overactive flight instinct. I’m hoping I won’t have to climb too many trees this time. I’ve been informed Evangeline was considering taking over Montana so she could have a horse?”

“Unfortunately. World domination is on her radar for some reason. I still haven’t figured out why.”

“I have an older school horse, even-tempered, that might work for her. Consider it a present to put a temporary stay on her world domination plans. The mare has been on fox, boar, and deer hunts, and she enjoys trail rides. I expect your Evangeline doesn’t know how to ride, but this mare will be a good teacher for her.”

“I don’t know how to ride, either,” I confessed.

“Then it’s a good thing I picked a mare for you, too. Riding is good physical therapy. I’ll send a trainer through Dr. Hampford to give you both instructions on how to ride. By spring, Evangeline should be ready to hunt your family on horseback.”

“Put it in the contract for my reinstatement as heir. Don’t all those horse people have two each? In case one’s sick or tired?”

Montana’s king chuckled. “I can make arrangements to sell a second horse to you both, good animals that’ll make your parents weep when the bill arrives. While Mackenzie helps Evangeline, let’s handle as much of the paperwork as we can. I’ve been informed an unwanted party is aware of your interest in Evangeline, so I need to hear your side of the story.”

“It’s pretty simple. I dated Gail for five years when she decided to cheat on me at a party at the castle. In my bed. As I don’t cheat and have no interest in marrying a known cheater, I quietly broke off our relationship, under the excuse of irreconcilable differences. She broke off her recent engagement and showed up at Great-Grandpa’s place trying to ‘repair’ our relationship. Not happening.”

“If she should talk?”

“I’ll take the truth public, and she’s aware I will. I told her that myself.”

“That will create a scandal.”

I snorted. “Hardly. The only scandal will be she was brazen enough to cheat on me in my damned bed. I’ve never cheated on a woman in my life. I haven’t even been with anyone since Gail. All things I’m willing to have verified.”

“But you’ve attended the auctions.”

Sighing, I shook my head. “I bid on women who didn’t want to be treated like whores and took them out to dinner. Sometimes dancing. They went home without being treated like a whore.”

“Your reputation is thus one thing, reality another.

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