Johanna Lindsey - Reid Family 01 by The Heir

Author:The Heir [Heir, The]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Published: 2012-02-05T14:11:03+00:00

Think about it? Sabrina had trouble thinking about anything else during the next hour. What if Raphael was right and Duncan just hadn’t figured out yet that he was falling in love with her? That kiss he had treated her to could even support that contention. He had been embarrassed and upset about it, yet why had he kissed her if there was nothing but friendship between them?

But when rational thoughts finally intruded, she knew she wouldn’t do it, what Raphael was suggesting. It would be pure deceit just for Duncan’s benefit, and she couldn’t do that to him. Besides, it might have sounded logical, the way Raphael had put it, but anything could sound logical if twisted just right. That she mightwant to believe it was sheer foolishness on her part. Playing “what ifs” had never been part of her realistic nature.

And then she put the thought completely away, after her talk with Ophelia.

“Have you noticed how he’s trying to make me jealous?” Ophelia purred in her ear. “I think it’s rather silly myself, but you can’t tell a man that, nor get him to admit that’s what he’s doing.” The remark, coming as it did from out of nowhere as Ophelia stepped up behind her, confounded Sabrina for a moment. She wasn’t usually so dense, but having just been wrestling with the subject of jealousy that had been introduced by Raphael Locke, hearing it now from an entirely different direction actually did confuse her briefly.

She wished she could have retracted her, “Who?” though, as soon as she uttered it, since her confusion did clear before Ophelia gave her the very obvious answer. And she would have preferred, greatly preferred, not to have the conversation that followed.

“Why, Duncan, of course,” Ophelia said, then in surprise, “You look surprised.” Sabrina wasn’t, but apparently Ophelia had expected her to be, and went on as if she really had looked surprised. “Don’t tell me you thought the attention he has been giving you was because he might actually be interested in you?” She added a chuckle here. “My dear, I thought you of all people would know Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html

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“I haven’t thought any such thing,” Sabrina replied, her tone more defensive than she would have liked.

“Duncan and I are merely friends.”

“You might think so, but that just shows how naive you are. I assure you, it’s all a pretense on his part that he hopes I’ll notice.”

That stung, making Sabrina wonder if that wasn’t Ophelia’s intention. Sabrina might not be desirable for a wife, but she did like to think she was worthy of friendship. Yet the blond girl was implying that Duncan wouldn’t have become friends with her without this ulterior motive.

“Friendship would hardly make you jealous, Ophelia—or would it?”

“Certainly it wouldn’t,” Ophelia replied impatiently. “But he’s hoping I’ll think it’s more than that, or haven’t you got the point yet?”

“No, I guess I missed the point,” Sabrina said dryly. “I thought it was about jealousy.” Ophelia actually blushed, but she was decidedly single-minded and got right back to stressing herpoint.

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