Ladies Prefer Adventure by Sandra Sookoo

Author:Sandra Sookoo
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: adventure romance, Fortune and Glory series, Sandra Sookoo, series romance, travel, Victorian romance, American, Key West, train travel, scoundrel, humor
Publisher: New Independence Books
Published: 2020-04-14T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

September 23, 1885

Everett couldn’t concentrate on the report he needed to write. Charlotte consumed part of his thoughts, as she always did, and every moment they’d enjoyed together danced through his mind’s eye.

After their coupling two evenings before, he’d spent precious hours in her bed, doing nothing more than talking. Mostly of their childhoods and their pasts. Hers had been a rather lonely life; books had kept her company. She’d been her grandfather’s favorite and had eagerly soaked up his knowledge and his fancies. Once she’d completed finishing school in New York—one of her grandfather’s wishes, where she’d made lasting ties to a few young ladies of her own age—she’d come back to London where she’d tried to be the dutiful ton daughter, to make a match. But she had too strong a personality, and when her grandfather died, she’d taken it hard. She’d come to Rome, found her independence and a purpose.

And she’d persisted.

He’d never been as in reverence of a woman as he was with her, especially after the trek to the monastery yesterday. Miss Charlotte Blakely was as flawless as a diamond and possessed just as many facets, each more fascinating than the next. Smart, resourceful, funny, intriguing, the longer that he was in her company, the more he wanted to secure their future together. Each time he was with her, she made him want to be a better man.

But would someone like her wish to settle down?

There were no clear answers, but he’d try. Which was why he’d thrown himself into his work for the bulk of this day in the hopes he could catch up and free up more time to spend with her. Yes, in his position, he had obligations, yet they didn’t hold a candle to adventuring or seeing the excitement in a pair of sapphire blue eyes.

Now, with dinner a half hour off, he couldn’t wait to see her again, for he missed her company. Did she return the sentiment? Impossible to tell. She kept her emotional side tightly hidden. Rarely was he able to glimpse the vulnerable woman beneath the veneer of confidence she projected to the world.

Everett glanced at the paperwork on his desk, but the words blurred and the pen in his hand drooped. However, the viscount’s daughter wasn’t the only thing on his mind that tore him away from his duties. The sheet of aged sheet music he’d found yesterday nagged at him.

What the devil did it go to?

He shoved the possibilities away. I have a report to write.

He scrawled another two lines over the paper before his pen paused yet again. Why would someone leave a piece of unfinished music in a pigeonhole desk, lost to the ages in a dusty monastery, a place where music wasn’t the center of their teachings? Argh! If he thought over the mystery too long, he’d lose his mind. Blowing out a breath, Everett spent the next ten minutes writing a page full of notes before the puzzle of the sheet music intruded.

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