Omega's Virtue Part One (The Hartwell Sisters Saga Book 2) by Flora Quincy

Author:Flora Quincy [Quincy, Flora]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-11-19T00:00:00+00:00

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My letter to my old friend enquiring about Stimpson was franked, and left with the express. I might not have Pax’s compulsion to control and protect those I believed in my care, but… But the way Stimpson had dragged Hero out of the room had gone against every principle an alpha lived by.

I wondered why I hadn’t said something at the time. But to what end? Hero had not seemed upset by her treatment, and left with a smile on her face.

I didn’t see Pax again until that evening when we met in the Long Gallery before dinner. “I wrote. We’ll hear soon, unless the regiment has moved on. Then I don’t know how long it might be.”

“If I see him handle Hero like a criminal again, I’ll kill him.” Pax paced back and forth like a caged tiger.

I allowed him to vent, content to watch him and know that eventually he’d come round to the real subject of his passions. At last he stopped before me. Taller but leaner than I, Pax’s alpha rode him hard. I waited, revelling in the way his scent deepened and flared. We’d reached the point where he asked me about her.

“Beatrice likes you,” he snarled like the dog, who sought to steal the bone. “She ran and wrapped her arms around you. I saw it with my own eyes.”

“We’ve known each other a long time.” I all but purred for him. “I’m surprised it took you this long to ask more questions…” And hoped he’d not press me too much.

“I thought our friendship meant enough that you would bring it up without prompting. What are you holding back?”

The admission, the truth, was on the tip of my tongue. “There is something—“

“Sirs! Such wonderful luck. Did you know? Lord Paxton, such good fortune! I was wondering if you would be interested in a venture? A friend of mine. He knows a farm in Ireland. Some of the finest blood and bone you ever did see!” The young alpha rubbed his hands together. “Now, the rub. He don’t have the blunt to bring the horses over. You’ve an eye for horseflesh and perhaps you might be willing to put forward a monkey and…”

“I don’t deal in horse peddling. Come, Soldier. The ladies await.”

“You are sure to make your money back and more!” Stimpson ran down behind us and continued in that vein, until we were called to dinner.

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