Moonlight Masquerade by Michaels Kasey

Author:Michaels, Kasey
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romantic comedy, regency romance, alphabet regency romance
Publisher: Kasey Michaels

Chapter 14

Christine ran down the long hallway, nearly blinded by her tears, searching in her pocket for the key to her own bedchamber.

It took her an eternity to insert the key in the lock, an eternity during which she prayed that no servant would find it necessary to walk down the hallway. Finally, closing the door behind her, she gratefully leaned against it, her eyes squeezed tightly shut, her breast heaving, as she tried to recapture her breath.

Suddenly her eyelids slammed open. What was that sound? How could she have forgotten? The passageway. The sound had come from the passageway! Although in two separate rooms, she and Vincent were still linked together by the open passage. Her gaze quickly shifted to the paneling as she wildly wondered how she would ever be able to close it, but the wall was already sliding shut.

Her tears dried on her cheeks. “Vincent,” she said unnecessarily into the empty air. He had closed off the corridor, sparing her the embarrassment of having to ask him to do it. She stood away from the door, slowly shaking her head. “Was it to help me, Vincent, I wonder, or am I still hopelessly trying to fashion an angel from a devil?”

Her mind whirled about, seeking another answer. Perhaps he had hurried to close the panel in order to show her just one more time how completely and utterly he wanted her out of his life.

“Well,” she announced with a defiant toss of her dark curls, “I can only hope he didn’t do himself an injury in his rush to seal the doorway. I shan’t be tempted to use the passage again.”

She busied herself for the next few minutes in moving the small tables back to their original positions around the chamber, blowing out at least half the candles she had lit earlier, her agile mind reliving the last half hour with varying results.

“As a matter of fact, it would be no great wonder to me if I were to be awakened bright and early tomorrow morning to the sound of Vincent’s man Lazarus nailing the secret door shut with a dozen foot long spikes,” she muttered, pushing the last table back into place with a none too gentle nudge from her hip.

Walking over to the window, she laid her forehead against the cold glass, hoping it would ease the headache now pounding behind her eyes. Outside, the world was dark, with only a faint moonlight etching weird patterns on the snow. The scene, once beautiful to her, now seemed barren and vaguely oppressive.

“Oh, what a fool I am, just as Vincent said. What a complete and utter ninnyhammer. Why, I all but fell at his feet, begging for him to love me. Aunt Nellis would have me locked up for life if she were to learn of it—immediately after she recovered from her nervous spasm, of course. Whatever possessed me to believe that Vincent might be falling in love with me? Or that I could be

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