Leslie Lafoy by The Perfect Temptation

Author:The Perfect Temptation
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Three consecutive days in the saddle, Aiden silently grumbled as they made their way into the rear yard, would make one, if not weak, then at least acutely aware of discomfort. Especially if it had been well over a year since you’d last thought about saddles, stirrups, reins, and using certain muscles in your body. Thank God for long hot baths and whatever was in the tincture that Alex had been giving him before dinner every evening.

There were two consolations in it all; the first being that Mohan was well on his way to becoming an excellent rider, the second that Alex was a delightful caretaker who winced every time he did and spent considerable effort seeing to his physical comfort. The only drawback was that he’d been too tired too soon in the evening to reap the larger rewards of her tender caretaking.

Although, he reminded himself, there was something nicely domestic about having her gently wake him, help him up from the pillows, and send him off to his own bed. It would be even nicer if he ever had the presence of mind to ask her to come with him.

“Perhaps we should put my horse back on the lead.”

Aiden looked over at the boy and cocked a brow. “Do you think we need to?”

“I am quite comfortable without it,” Mohan assured him. “It is Miss Alex’s comfort which concerns me. She is not likely to be pleased to see the lead gone. She has a habit of worrying about me unnecessarily.”

That she did. And the last three days of riding in the parks of London had brought that home in a way he hadn’t expected. “We won’t tell her that we’ve taken it off.”

“And you do not think that she will be at a window, watching through the new iron covers for our return?”

“If she is and if she protests, I’ll assure her that you deserve the freedom and can manage it ably.”

“And you believe that she will accept your word on this?” he posed, clearly skeptical.

“Yes.”

Mohan snorted and countered, “Then you would be the very first man to have such an influence on her.”

“And just how would you know that?” Aiden asked as he reined in his mount and swung down. “You’re only ten. You couldn’t have seen too many men try to sway her on anything.”

“British officers come to see my father all the time,” he retorted, climbing down as Aiden pulled open the doors of the stable. “They notice Miss Alex. And when Mrs. Radford was alive, she took Miss Alex to parties at their summer headquarters. Always one or two officers would come back after them. I have seen many men talking sweet to Miss Alex. She is always polite but unaffected by them. Eventually they go away and do not return.”

Which, when it came right down to it, was exactly what he was doing now, what he was going to do in the end. Aiden frowned, not liking that he was falling into the same pattern as the other men who had passed through Alex’s life.

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