Love's Debt by Rachel Brimble

Author:Rachel Brimble
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General Fiction
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
Published: 2012-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

She kissed him! She damn well kissed him. Milly stared ahead as they continued across town, her footsteps two to every one of his. What was the matter with her? Had a piece of her brain fallen out on the way to his room and rolled into a different part of that woman’s damn house?

Neither of them had referred to it or as much as come within a foot of each other since leaving Joseph’s lodgings. Milly intended to make sure it stayed that way. The man was dangerous to her mind, her pocket, and now her sensibilities. Until that moment when his hands had so carelessly slipped to her waist, Milly had not been aware of just how traitorous her body could be to all her good intentions.

His hands had been a spark to a simmering flame deep inside her…his mouth a vat of gasoline. Whoosh! She thought she had gone up in smoke, only to open her eyes and still be standing in his room, talking a load of sass and nonchalance just as bold as brass straight afterward.

She needed to keep her mind sharp and her emotions clear. A man would complicate things. Hadn’t she always said that? She sneaked a glance at him from beneath lowered lashes. God, he was handsome. He turned and winked. Milly snapped her head away as heat flooded her face and a smile curved her lips. She liked Joseph. Too much.

Clearing her throat, she focused her mind as they turned into Turpin Road. The address of the sponging house.

“We’re looking for number twenty-two.” Her gaze scanned the houses to her left.

The houses looked to be the usual two up, two down residential abodes being built up and down the city. New homes for the people who could afford them with rumors for government funded housing to follow. Milly drew in a shaky breath. If she had her way, one of those houses would soon be hers. She’d scrimped and saved for too damn long to take a slip down a rung of the ladder now.

“There it is. There. See?” She pointed across the street.The front yard of number twenty-two was tiny but well-kept. Clean, net curtain hung at the windows, and the front step was brushed free of debris. Perfectly respectable. Nobody would guess the people staying there most likely did so under duress.

Joseph gripped her elbow, and Milly turned.

He looked straight into her eyes. “I’ll take the lead. This is my problem and my father. I want you to stay here.”

Milly stared, irritation simmering deep inside her. She was not used to being told what to do. “I didn’t bring you here and then expect you to face this alone.”

“I don’t want you getting mixed up with these people. I’ll talk to them, see how the land lies. I have two jobs. I can get them their money, but it’s going to take time.”

“And if they don’t agree to wait? Then what?” She glanced toward the house. “This could get nasty.

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