Otherwise Engaged by Amanda Quick

Author:Amanda Quick [Amanda Quick]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, Historical, Mystery
ISBN: 9781410466518
Amazon: 0399165142
Barnesnoble: 0399165142
Goodreads: 18667949
Publisher: Putnam Adult
Published: 2013-12-31T14:00:00+00:00

Eighteen

He could not have mangled the business more thoroughly if he had set out to do precisely that, Benedict thought.

He had not intended to make love to Amity tonight, but he had been thinking about taking her to bed ever since he had met her. The problem was that he had not made a plan. Instead, he had acted on impulse. When the opportunity arose, he had been unable to resist. Desire was a powerful drug. And now he was paying the price.

No worse than riding a camel.

What did you expect? he wondered. You made love to her in a stable.

The only thing he could say about the matter now was that it had certainly seemed like a profoundly brilliant notion at the time.

The carriage jolted to a halt in front of his town house. The windows were darkened. Mr. and Mrs. Hodges had drawn the drapes for the night and retired to their bed.

Benedict opened the door, got down and sent the coachman on his way. The vehicle rumbled off into the fog.

He took his key out of his pocket, went up the steps and opened the door. The house seemed even quieter than usual. Darker, too, he thought. All of the lights were turned down low, including those in the hall.

He shrugged out of his coat, pausing to take a deep breath when he caught Amity’s scent. He immediately grew hard again. The aching need stirred deep inside him, stronger than ever even though he had slaked his desire once tonight. Perhaps it was because he now knew just how satisfying it was to sink into Amity’s wet, tight body.

The coat would certainly never be the same and neither would he.

What he needed now was a strong, medicinal dose of brandy. He slung the coat over one shoulder and went along the hall toward the door of his study. He reached up automatically to loosen his tie and then stopped, smiling a little, when he discovered that the strips of silk were still hanging around his neck. He had neglected to retie them because he had been fixed on the goal of getting Amity away from the Gilmore house before anyone noticed that she was in a state of enchanting dishabille.

He was so consumed with the sweet, hot memories that he did not notice anything amiss until he heard an odd, strangely muffled sound coming from a dark corner of the room.

He turned swiftly, his hand seeking the gun inside his coat. Mrs. Hodges was sitting rigidly in a ladder-back kitchen chair. Hodges was equally upright in a matching chair. Neither the chairs nor the Hodges belonged in the study at that hour of the night.

“What the devil are you doing there in the corner?”

Hodges made another strange noise. There was just enough light from the low-burning lamp on the desk to reveal the gag in his mouth. His hands and ankles were bound with rope. Mrs. Hodges was secured in the same fashion. Hodges stared, wide-eyed, at Benedict and made more desperate sounds deep in his throat.

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