Make Me Love You by Johanna Lindsey

Author:Johanna Lindsey [Lindsey, Johanna]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781472233813
Publisher: Headline
Published: 2016-07-04T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Nine

BROOKE MADE SURE NOT to run into Dominic for the rest of that day by simply staying in her room, even taking her meals there. From the sound of so much traffic coming and going from his room, she guessed he wasn’t going to follow her advice to stay off his wounded leg for a few hours a day. She would have thought he’d at least pamper his leg today after so much activity last night and this morning, but obviously not. She even heard him in the corridor later telling Gabriel he was going out to the stable to check on some of his prized horses.

Her run of the house had been brief. And as much as she might be tempted to avoid Dominic and his nasty tactics, she knew she couldn’t or they’d never resolve their issues. Well, she had no issues other than his campaign to drive her away. Would that end once they married? Or was his meanness ingrained? Still, she wasn’t about to follow him around Rothdale like a lovesick puppy. She needed viable reasons to seek him out and spend time with him now that she no longer had an excuse to enter his room. Why the deuce did he have to heal so quickly?

Alfreda joined her in her room for an early lunch, bringing enough food for them both. “Does he love you yet after you spent the night with him?” the maid asked even before she set the tray down on the little table.

Brooke sat down on the love seat, admitting, “He did kiss me several times, but he had an incredible excuse for doing so.”

“Oh?”

Brooke snorted. “He heard our horses breeding during the night. It apparently stirred his own lust.”

“And you didn’t take advantage of that?”

“I tried to,” Brooke mumbled, then growled, “He stopped, claiming I’d never leave Rothdale if he made love to me.”

Alfreda laughed, earning a glare from Brooke across the table. Having coughed her humor away, the maid pointed out, “That was a whopper and you should have recognized it as one.”

“Then what was his real reason? I was willing, he even guessed I was.”

“Perhaps your wolf is more chivalrous than he lets on and simply didn’t want your initiation into the delights of the marital bed to be lacking a bed. And since he’s still hoping you’ll go home, he wouldn’t admit to that, now would he?”

“Maybe.” Brooke remembered her own thought last night that it had been chivalrous of him to try to block the wind from her.

“So now that he’s healed enough to ride through a storm and back for you, which was a magnificently heroic—”

“Do not ascribe to him motives he didn’t have. It was self-interest and nothing else that impelled him to find me.”

Alfreda tsked as if she didn’t agree. “In either case, you need to figure out new ways to spend time with him. Your plan could be working and he just won’t own up to it yet. I saw him go out to the stable.

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