My Laird's Seduction: Scottish Historical Romance (A Laird to Love Book 4) by Tammy Andresen

Author:Tammy Andresen [Andresen, Tammy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-04-16T16:00:00+00:00

Ainsley watched him walk away blinking in confusion. What had just happened?

The conversation was the most heated and confounding she’d ever had. Well, the heated of course. No one made her blood boil the way he did. But it was like he was a different man in these private conversations. Vulnerable, hurt. And his thoughts weren’t always connected, as though there was more he wasn’t telling her.

“Ainsley,” Clarissa whispered as she cracked open the door. “Are you all right?”

Ainsley shook her head. “I am not sure.”

Clarissa poked her head out of her room. “That was…”

“How much did you hear?”

“A lot of it.” Clarissa bit her lip. “I had no idea the man that was underneath all of his bravado. He’s hurting and—”

“Clarissa,” Ainsley cut her off. “He’s still dangerous. I think more so because when he’s like that, he breaches my defenses.”

She nodded. “He’ll leave soon. Ewan says that he’s almost done fixing the ship.”

Ainsley swallowed. That news shouldn’t hurt. It would be better when he was gone and not clouding her judgment so. Not that he was all bad. In many ways, he had brought out a better side of her and the heat between them…but she was certain she was about to be burned. “I think I’ll go to bed too.”

“Why don’t you return to the party?” Clarissa reached for her hand. “It’s the one chance you’ve had to really have fun.”

She nodded her agreement though the party seemed anything but fun. Heading down the stairs, she tried to slip back into the ballroom unnoticed. But several sets of eyes found her, James had come back and he looked near predatory, but it was her mother who got to her first.

“Where have you been?” she hissed.

Ainsley clucked her tongue. “Helping Clarissa with Ava.” It was mostly true.

Relief made her mother’s features relax. “Don’t sneak off like that again.”

Ainsley nodded, but before she could sit, James was by her side. “Dance with me,” it was more of a command then a request as he swept her onto the floor.

“James,” she huffed under her breath. “I don’t think this is a good idea.”

He stopped abruptly on the edge of the dancers and gathered her into his arms. Far closer than was respectable. She blinked several times because he was somehow the same and yet different. He had all the confidence of the usual James but the intimacy she’d only seen flashes of when they were alone was still there. Honestly, this man stole her breath away. “I warned you what would happen if you said my name again. I may just kiss you in front of the entire assembly.”

She let out a small gasp. “You wouldn’t.”

“Try me,” there was a dangerous glint in his eye as he began to spin her about.

She was tempted to do it. Say his name and see what happened. Blood rushed in her ears at the thrill of it but her own preservation won in the end. While she’d seen a few glimpses of a

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