Noble Intentions by Katie Macalister

Author:Katie Macalister [MacAlister, Katie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2010-12-24T00:42:24.836000+00:00

Chapter Eight

“Good evening, Lady Wessex.”

“Oh, Lord Rosse, good evening.” Gillian peered around the marquis, looking for Noble. “How nice to see you again. That’s a lovely waistcoat. Are those dragons?”

“Yes. It is a gift from my betrothed.”

Gillian looked at him, startled. “You are betrothed? I didn’t know Noble never mentioned it.”

Rosse smiled. “I’ve been betrothed since I was sixteen. Our fathers arranged it.”

Gillian’s brow furrowed. “Is that legal?”

Rosse shrugged. “It matters not, I’ve pledged myself to the girl, and I’ll marry her. Some day,” he added with an irresistible grin. Gillian couldn’t help but grin in response. She liked Rosse the best of all Noble’s friends. He reminded her of a friendly puppy, all eagerness and enthusiasm.

“Noble had an important appointment, I’m afraid, but I managed to convince him to allow me to have the honor of escorting you to the Countess of Gayfield’s rout, where your estimable husband will join us later.”

Gillian was disappointed that Noble had not remained home to escort her. She not only wanted to discuss the note she had received from Lord Carlisle, she wanted to find out why he had been weeping. Nick was in good health—that had been her first concern. Try as she might, she just could not understand why her Lord of Tempers ran hot one moment, then cold another. Perhaps it would be better if she stopped trying to understand him and just accepted his volatile emotions

“Er . quite so, my lady,” Lord Rosse said, and held the door open for her Gillian blushed, thought about explaining about her Unfortunate Habit, then decided it wasn’t important

“My lord,” she said once she was seated in Lord Rosse’s elegant carnage, “perhaps you would tell me—”

“Where your husband is this evening? I’m afraid I cannot, my lady.”

Gillian looked annoyed “I shouldn’t dream of asking you such a thing,” she said. “I have every faith in my Noble, and if he said he had an important matter of business to attend to, then I’m sure that is what he is doing.”

Rosse thought back to the earlier conversation he had had with Noble.

“Just look at this, Harry,” the Black Earl had demanded, waving a letter in front of the marquis’s face. “How dare the blackguard impugn Gillian’s virtue in such a manner? You’ll act as my second, of course.”

“Your second? You’ve called him out, then?”

“Yes, earlier, when I caught the murdering bastard with his hands all over my wife.”

Rosse stared at him in surprise.

“Oh, not in that manner; it was all perfectly innocent on her part,” Noble stormed, continuing to wear a path in the carpet before his friend “She was suitably escorted by Crouch and three footmen, not to mention Nick, her cousin, and those blasted beasts. No, that was an innocent bit of folly on her part; her cousin wanted an introduction, and you know how Gillian thinks—in a manner so convoluted it’s almost straightforward, she took Lady Charlotte to call on the man with some feeble excuse of seeking a referral from him.

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