Married By Arrangement by Lynne Graham

Author:Lynne Graham
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2010-05-31T14:40:30.140000+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

BY THE time that Antonio entered the compartment Sophie was fast asleep. Curled up in a ball, tawnyblonde curls tumbling over a delicate cheekbone, she looked very young, incredibly pretty and alarmingly vulnerable.

She was also his wife. His wife. It was a disturbing moment of truth for Antonio. She was now Sophie Cunningham de Rocha, the Marquesa de Salazar. She had had grounds for complaint, he acknowledged, his handsome mouth hardening on that admission of selfblame. He was not accustomed to finding himself in the wrong. But he had censured her behaviour as his wife without once accepting her right to be treated as though she was his wife.

A slight movement in the cot attracted his attention. He glanced down and met Lydia's big hopeful brown eyes. The baby flashed him a huge gummy smile of welcome and wriggled with excess energy. Without words, Lydia was letting him know that she wanted out of the cot and that she was expecting him to supply the means of her escape from captivity. He was amused until the baby let out a little bleating cry of disappointment when he turned back to the door.

`If I took you out of there, I wouldn't know what to do with you,' Antonio pointed out in his own defence.

The melting brown eyes stayed pinned to him.

`Yes, of course I can learn, but in easy stages,' Antonio murmured in what he was hoped was a soothing tone that might send her back to sleep. He took another step away from the cot.

The brown eyes glistened and the rosebud mouth trembled piteously.

At the threat of tears, Antonio tensed. He glanced back at Sophie, who was clearly enjoying the, very sound sleep of exhaustion. Breathing in deep and mustering his legendary ability to deal with the unexpected, he reached down to lift Lydia out of the cot. She wriggled with pleasure and smiled like mad at him in return.

`You know how to get your own way,' Antonio informed the baby wryly. `But success is not always followed by the reward you expect. We're going to watch the business news together.'

Sophie wakened only when her shoulder was gently shaken. Feathery lashes lifting, she focused slowly on Antonio's darkly handsome face and her mouth ran dry. Try as she might, she could not suppress her response to his mesmeric attraction.

`You may want to get up,' he murmured softly. `We'll be landing in fifteen minutes. Did you sleep well?'

`I don't remember even putting my head down,' she confided, glancing down at her watch. `I'm amazed Lydia let me, sleep this long!'

`I've been entertaining her.'

Before she could comment on that surprising information, he had gone. Ten minutes later she joined him in the main cabin. Lydia was enjoying a peaceful nap in her baby harness, a sure-fire sign of contentment.

`How did you manage with her?' Sophie asked uncomfortably.

'Consuela, one of the crew, is a parent. She lent me some assistance when Lydia needed a drink,' Antonio admitted modestly. `But Lydia was very good and easily amused.

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