My Irresistible Earl by Gaelen Foley

Author:Gaelen Foley
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: HarperCollins US
Published: 2011-03-26T16:00:00+00:00

Drake watched Emily feed the horses, unable to take his eyes off her.

The sky was bright, and the trees swayed over the meadow as she stepped up onto the bottom rail of the fence. Leaning over to shove away some of the greedier mares, she fed her handful of grain to a meeker chestnut filly who obviously did not rank as high as the others in the herd’s hierarchy.

“There you are, girl,” she murmured, her soft voice beguiling Drake right along with the animals.

Because he had remembered her on sight, his captors had started letting her take him outside.

Emily said it would be good for him, fresh air and sunshine. Max had finally conceded, for she was the only one who seemed to know where the devil to start with him.

“Here.” She turned to him with a reassuring smile. “Let’s feed them together like we used to. Give me your hand.”

When he slowly put out his hand, she spilled a fistful of oats into his palm. “Go on,” she coaxed him in the same soothing tone with which she had spoken to the horses.

Drake did not remember hand-feeding the horses with her, but that dulcet voice, as soft as breezes, could have given him any order, and he’d have obeyed.

Standing beside her, he reached over the fence and let an old bay gelding lip the grain from his hand.

Meanwhile, Sergeant Parker stood a few yards off, keeping a wary eye on him, his rifle hanging across his back. As the horse’s velvety muzzle tickled his hand, Drake knew that his captors’ suspicion of him was not unwarranted.

Even now, he was well aware of how easy it would be to vault over the fence onto one of the horses’ backs and gallop out of their reach.

He mightn’t get far without tack, but at least he would get a running start on the Order. He could escape, hide, survive—and make his way to London, back to James.

Dread for the old man’s safety still moved like ominous storm clouds over the landscape of his mind—only now, a light had broken. And Drake found he could not tear himself away from her.

Emily.

He watched the gamekeeper’s beautiful daughter in endless fascination.

Finding her, knowing that sweet, freckled face at once had suddenly arrested the fear and rage that had been ruling him for an age. Near her, he felt at peace, his battered soul like a ship’s crew resting in the clear eye of a tempest.

But somehow he knew this was only a brief calm, this country idyll. Despite all he had been through so far, the other end of the storm was bound to be worse.

For now, his fascination with Emily kept him here. Hang him if she wasn’t as odd and wild as he was, in her way. Perhaps he sensed that if anyone could help him, she could. Perhaps he knew deep down in his marrow that if he could trust anyone, it was her.

Only her.

Acutely aware of the mysterious beauty beside him,

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