Kissing the Bride by Sara Bennett

Author:Sara Bennett [Sara Bennett]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780061746321
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2004-01-30T05:00:00+00:00

Reynard watched her go, his gaze lingering on the furious sway of her hips, the arrogant tilt of her head. She was a little beauty, no mistake, and it was a shame she had refused him. That she was also a liar and a cheat, and wanted to bring down Lord Henry and Lady Jenova with her manipulating ways, bothered him not at all. He could see past that to the possibilities that lay deep in her heart.

He had looked into her brown eyes and seen something proud and stubborn and wounded. It had made him feel almost protective. He did not want to hurt her, but he could not allow her to hurt others. He hadn’t really believed that comment about selling her maidenhead, although the man who had told him had been one of Lord Baldessare’s former grooms, now come to work for Lady Jenova.

What father would do that to his daughter?

Evidently Baldessare would—there had been no mistaking the dismayed acknowledgement in her lovely face. Probably that was where she had gotten the idea that she could have anything she wanted if she was prepared to offer herself in return. To men of breeding with plenty of money, that is. The groom had also been keen to impart other gossip, tales of Lady Rhona’s activities, which, even if exaggerated, still caused Reynard to wonder if she was truly the lady she pretended to be.

But Reynard had seen enough of the world to know that sometimes, out of desperation and despair, people found it necessary to act in a manner they would not otherwise have contemplated. Mayhap Lady Rhona was desperate? Or mayhap she despaired?

Or mayhap she just enjoyed men?

Reynard remembered how she had looked at him, as if she had certainly enjoyed the thought of him and her, together. She had made much of the fact that he was a churl, but he did not think that would have mattered if he had held her in his arms.

He shook his head to clear his mind. She was entangling him in desire and he hadn’t even had her yet! But he would, oh he would. Although Reynard considered himself an experienced ladies’ man, and with justification, he knew when to take a step back. His senses were giving him that warning right now.

Lady Rhona had an air of danger about her. She thought she had his measure. Reynard smiled. She was an apprentice compared to him. He could read her as his father the shipwright had read the weather. She had said nay to him for now, but she would be back.

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