Lord St. Claire's Angel by Donna Lea Simpson

Author:Donna Lea Simpson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, historical romance, scandal, rogue, governess, traditional regency, british historical fiction
Publisher: Beyond the Page Publishing

• • •

Elizabeth twitched the curtains back to look out on the gloomy December afternoon. “I think it will be perfectly marvelous,” she sang, dancing around the room in a rare display of high spirits. Her husband watched her fondly as she circled the room, touching an ornament here, straightening a cushion there. “It has been years since we have had a big Christmas party.”

“You have been a little taken up with childbearing and other necessary nuisances,” he chuckled.

He was a big man, stretched at his ease on a dainty brocade sofa at the moment, watching his slim wife with appreciation. Few people saw him smile, even fewer heard him laugh. Only with Elizabeth did he show those rare sides of himself. It had been an arranged match that had miraculously turned into love, and though they had had their troubles, he was forever glad that his parents had betrothed him to her when she was still in the cradle and he was in short pants.

“I think my plans are coming along brilliantly,” Elizabeth said. “Every day St. Claire is behaving himself better. He voluntarily took the Miss Stimsons for a ride this afternoon! On the whole, though, I believe that Lady Grishelda will suit him better.”

“If you can keep him out of the clutches of the mother,” August growled. “I know my brother, my dear. With a willing widow in hand, he is unlikely to think of marriage, a subject he avoids even when attending the marriage mart.”

Elizabeth stopped. “Do you think they are sleeping together?”

“Him and Lady van Hoffen? Probably doing damn little sleeping.”

“August!” She stopped before her husband and allowed him to pull her down on his lap. “Still, I swear that before this holiday season is over, I will have him betrothed!”

“You missed your calling, my dear.” He gazed into her sparkling blue eyes. She was adorable when she was scheming. It hardly seemed possible that she had a fourteen-year-old son, she still looked so youthful and slender. “You should be Cupid, and this should be St. Valentine’s, not Christmas,” he said with a teasing lilt in his voice.

“Tonight I will test my mettle at our Christmas party. He will fall for one of my guests, just you wait and see.”

August St. Claire nuzzled his wife’s neck. “Don’t be so sure, my love. You are doomed to disappointment. I don’t know who will ever catch my rapscallion brother, but it will have to be someone swift and witty. And they had best be prepared to have him lead them a merry dance before he is snared.”

“He sounds more like a hare than a man, my darling.”

“More like a fox, if you ask me.”

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.