Phantom Lover by Susan Napier

Author:Susan Napier
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 1994-05-14T16:00:00+00:00

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Lying awake in bed a few hours later, Honor was still trying to come up with a crushing response to his arrogant throw-away remark. She should have flung at him that they obviously had radically different theories on the effects of propinquity! Lumping her in with Tania was enough of an insult. How dared he joke about what to Honor was a thoroughly mortifying situation? What made him think he was so irresistible, anyway?

Honor shot bolt upright in the bed, her eyes wide with horror in the darkness.

Her letters!

She knew there had been something nagging at the back of her mind. She knew there had been an important issue she had meant to settle before she agreed to anything. But she had been side-tracked by his conniving.

She had forgotten to ask for her letters back. It didn’t seem fair that he was the only one to be able to redeem his embarrassment. Good God, what if he decided to read through them again? What if he re-read all that drivel she had written to the man of her dreams? As long as those words were held hostage over her head she would never have peace of mind.

Honor looked towards the firmly closed door that connected her room with his. A thin white line illuminating the bottom edge of the wood told her he was still awake.

A strange urgency took hold of her. She wasn’t going to wait until the morning to settle this. She would never get to sleep for worrying about it.

She scrambled out of bed, dislodging Monty who had been curled up on her feet, gently snoring, and headed for the beckoning slit of light, swerving off course when she caught sight of her shimmering reflection in the mirror. The pale satin sleep-shirt was buttoned to the collarbone and a perfectly respectable knee-length, but she was taking no chances. Adam wasn’t going to get an excuse to claim she was coming on to him, even as a joke.

Remembering something she had seen in the wardrobe when she had tucked away her motley collection of clothes, she opened it up and took out the old-fashioned, faded red cloth coat. Securing its voluminous folds around her with the matching tie belt, she grimaced as she checked again in the mirror. She looked as if she was wearing a carpet. Still, no one would dare to accusing her of vamping.

There was no answer to her tentative knock at his door so she knocked again a little louder.

‘Adam? Can I come in? I have to speak to you.’

She couldn’t hear a sound from the other side but somehow she was certain he was there, deliberately letting her stew.

She knocked sharply once more and called out warningly, ‘I’m coming in!’ before easing open the door, and cautiously peeping in.

The room was empty, the bedside light bouncing off the crisp white sheets that were invitingly turned down, the brass bed-rails gleaming with a polished sheen.

‘Adam?’

Honor ventured inside, checking behind the door but curbing the sudden impulse to lift the edge of the quilt and look under the bed.

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