Regency RescueA Worthy GentlemanThe Homeless Heiress by Anne Herries

Author:Anne Herries
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mills & Boon Historical
Published: 2008-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Sarah woke to see the sun filtering in through half-drawn curtains. She stretched and yawned, wondering why she was in John’s bed, and then she saw him enter from his dressing room, clad only in a shirt and riding breeches and she smiled.

‘Are you going riding, John?’

‘Perhaps later,’ he said. ‘There are a few things I need to do, but only if you are feeling well enough for me to leave you.’

‘I am quite well,’ Sarah said. She sounded slightly husky and she could feel a little soreness in her throat, but it was bearable. ‘You will not stay away too long? I need to talk to you.’

‘We shall talk first if you wish,’ John said. ‘I shall not be long in any case. I have been busy since we came home, but most of that was because I had to protect you, Sarah. I had always suspected Sir Andrew of writing those letters, and of paying someone to leave Andrea’s things in my rooms—but I did not think it was he who shot at me in Scotland, and I was right.’

‘Sit here and tell me,’ Sarah said patting the bed. ‘I have sensed things, pieced them together in my mind, but I do not know it all.’

‘Andrea had a lover—the man who shot Sir Andrew and saved your life,’ John said and Sarah nodded in understanding. ‘It took us a while to catch him, but finally we did and I questioned him. He knew nothing of the letters, but he did fire a shot at you and then at me in Scotland.’

‘Because he suspected that you had killed Andrea,’ Sarah said. ‘Yes, I understand why he would hate us—but why was he at Sir Andrew’s house?’

‘Because after we talked, we both knew that it must have been Sir Andrew,’ John said. ‘Rathbone was determined to kill him and he gave Tobbold’s men the slip somehow…and I am very glad he did, my darling. Daniel and I came here first. I wanted to warn you about Sir Andrew, and then I found those letters…’

‘Ruth gave them to me this morning.’ Sarah explained Ruth’s story and her reasons for doing what Andrea’s father demanded. ‘I believe she had some idea that Andrea’s father might have had something to do with her death, though she did not say it in so many words. I have promised that we will discover if any letters have come for her from Richard Palmer. You will do it, John?’

‘By rights she should be dismissed for what she has done,’ John said, looking angry, ‘but, yes, I shall do it because you ask if of me, my darling. I would do anything you asked, Sarah. When I thought he had killed you I was desperate. I should have had nothing to live for if you were dead, my love.’

‘Yes, I know, John.’ Any lingering doubt that he had married her because she had compromised herself dissolved like the morning mist. She reached out to touch his cheek.

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