Johanna Lindsey - Malory Family 01 by Love Only Once

Author:Love Only Once [Once, Love Only]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Published: 2012-02-05T14:10:40+00:00

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“Oh, stuff,” she interrupted. “I won’t believe it if you try to convince me otherwise, so you needn’t try.” Nicholas gritted his teeth and she flashed him an amused grin. Looking at her beauty affected him strongly, as it always did, and his thoughts were quite scattered for the moment.

“I suppose I should ask how you have been getting on?”

“You should, yes,” Reggie agreed. “But we both know that what I do with my time doesn’t interest you.

For instance, you wouldn’t be wounded, would you, if you knew I have been so busy I haven’t missed you? And you wouldn’t care if you knew that other men have escorted me to the affairs my cousins insist I attend?”

“George Fowler?”

“George, Basil, William—”

“Careful, or I will begin to think you are trying to stir my jealousy in retaliation.”

“Retaliation? Oh, I see, you judge me by your own behavior. How amusing, Nicholas. Just because you find other women fascinating—”

“Blister it, Regina!” Nicholas finally lost all patience. “Why do you wrap your anger up in polite nonsense? Scream at me!”

“Don’t tempt me.”

“Aha!” he exclaimed triumphantly. “I was beginning to think you had no spirit.”

“Oh, Nicholas.” Reggie laughed softly. “Am I supposed to call you a foul, despicable creature, and swear tearfully that I wouldn’t marry you if you were the last man and so forth?” Nicholas glared furiously. “You mock me, madame?”

“What makes you think that?”

She said this with such an innocent expression that he put his hands on her shoulders, ready to shake her. But her magnificent blue eyes widened in surprise as her own hands came up to brace against his chest, and Nicholas flushed red hot.

He stepped back from her, nearly trembling. “The press of time forces me to be blunt, Regina,” he said coldly. “I asked you before to end this farce of an engagement. I am asking you again. Nay, I am begging you. I do not want to marry you.”

She dropped her gaze , staring fixedly at the high polish of his Hessian boots. “You don’t want me… in any way then? Not even as a lover?”

His honey-gold eyes flashed at the turmoil the question caused, but he said only, “You would no doubt make a fine mistress.”

“But you are not interested?”

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