One Night of Passion by Elizabeth Boyle

Author:Elizabeth Boyle [Boyle, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2011-05-21T15:08:51+00:00

Georgie turned at the sound of the cabin door opening.

“Sssh,” she whispered, pointing at the small bundle atop Colin’s bunk. “I’ve finally gotten her to sleep. She was quite restless after being tossed about.” Even as she said the words, she regretted her choice of phrasing.

Tossed about.

Colin blanched. “If I had known she was—” he said, his words stumbling over one another.

Georgie shook her head. “I know you wouldn’t have done it on purpose. Let us forget it happened. I know I’d like to.” She edger closer to her daughter.

He nodded in thanks and began to close the distance between them.

As he stepped into the circle of light offered by the lamp overhead, Georgie’s heart sang with recognition. While her body longed for him, ached to melt into his embrace, she took a deep breath and tried to remain calm and objective.

She couldn’t believe the truth that still stung like the storm’s icy spray: her Colin was also Baron Danvers. Her legal guardian. The selfsame man whose machinations she’d fled London to escape.

The irony that she’d landed back into his unwitting care didn’t escape her.

Yet, looking at him, she found it hard to believe he was her guardian, for she’d always envisioned Lord Danvers as a selfish old fool cut from the same cloth as Uncle Phineas. Still, how could a man who wasn’t more than a couple of years older than she be her guardian? None of it made any sense. Colin Danvers remained as much a mystery today as he had a year ago.

Even then, at the Cyprian’s Ball, he’d stood out as different. Oh, his fashionable coat and buff trousers had marked him as a gentleman that night, but there had been something altogether different about his manners. She’d even thought him too honorable for her plans.

Despite the fact that he wore the plain clothes of a sailor, he was so much more than a mere man of the sea. Whatever he wore, Colin Danvers persisted in puzzling her.

Gentleman or rake? Merchantman or pirate?

Though right now it hardly mattered what disguise he chose to cloak himself in—he was dripping wet from the rain, and forming puddles around his feet.

“You’re soaked,” she said, trying not to sound concerned. She hardly cared if Lord Danvers caught his death from a chill. But suddenly this sodden man appeared more Colin than cretin. “Get out of those clothes at once, Captain.”

At this he grinned. “Still rather to the point, aren’t you?”

Georgie felt her cheeks grow hot. “That isn’t what I meant. It’s just that you are—”

Now it was his turn to stave off the explanations. “I was only teasing.” He shrugged his coat off to reveal he was indeed soaked through—his white shirt clinging to his chest and arms.

Clearly Colin had changed in a year. He’d grown leaner, his face lined with concerns she wanted to reach up and brush away. His face and hands were deeply tanned from long hours in the brilliant Mediterranean sunshine.

If it was possible, his body

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