Pride Of Valor_Iii by Stein Andrea K

Author:Stein, Andrea K.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Muirgen® Publishing, LLC
Published: 2021-02-22T16:00:00+00:00

It was at least midnight when Harriet closed the book she’d been reading and marked her place with one of Nicholas’s childish notes he frequently left her. Her head had no more than hit the pillow when there was a great noise and commotion at the entrance to the lodge. Since she could hear the bellowing all the way down the passageway, she was at once alert. Nana. She assumed the worst.

She threw on her warm woolen wrapper and shoved her feet into her slippers. When she opened her door, Sidmouth’s footman was still outside her grandmother’s bedchamber door, but she looked inside on her way to investigate the noises, just to be sure. Nana still slept peacefully thanks to the smidgen of laudanum she’d slipped into her tea.

Proceeding down the passageway toward the great hall, she could recognize the voices now. The bellowing one was all too familiar. The more calm, mollifying one made her insides clench and the juncture of her thighs pool with moisture. Damn that man. Why was he here, now, in the one place in the world she’d thought she’d be safe? She couldn’t let them wake up the whole household, so boldly closed the distance.

The two men seemed oblivious to her presence, so she stood firmly in a wide-legged stance and gave them the whistle she used outdoors to get Max and Fleur’s attention when they took off after a stag. She was sure all of her ancestors whose portraits lined the great hall were enjoying her discomfiture and fearing for her sanity.

“What?” She threw her hands wide in an imploring gesture. “Do you two want to wake the entire lodge and our ancestors, too, while you’re at it?”

Sidmouth opened his mouth as if to protest only to have Richard clamp a hand over his face.

“Thank you,” she said, and called for Carrick, her butler. “Please show these two gentlemen to their beds for the night.” With that, she shook her head hard, pivoted, and turned back toward her side of the lodge.

Once Harriet was settled back in her bed, she thrashed about and turned several times, pounding her pillow to find a more comfortable position. “Ooh…” She flipped over onto her back and stared at the ceiling, wide awake. How was it possible to smell his scent even when he was all the way over on the other side of the lodge?

She finally sat up, lit a candle, and put her robe and slippers back on. Her heart nearly stopped at a tapping at the long window in her room overlooking the terrace that wrapped around the lodge. When she went to investigate, Richard was gesturing madly for her to let him in.

Harriet raised her eyes to the ceiling as if praying for guidance, but already knew what she’d do. The minute she opened the window on its hinges, he was inside and immediately divested her of her robe.

She sighed and snuffed the candle. “Richard, would you like to share my bed tonight?”

His

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