Rothwell Brothers 03 - Secrets of Surrender by Madeline Hunter

Author:Madeline Hunter
Language: eng
Format: epub

Rose considered locking her dressing room door that night.

She never had before in this brief marriage. She did not mind that he came to her every night. She was his wife and it was his due, and he never left without ensuring that she experienced the holy freedom that pleasure could create.

This night was different. She was not sure she would respond to his touch. A brittle silence had fal en on the house after they argued. It stil affected the air, and her.

A smal part of Kyle that had remained a stranger was revealed to her tonight. His force of wil had stunned her. She had sensed it in him, but seeing it, feeling it directed at her, frightened her a little.

She should have guessed just how much inner conviction he contained. In himself, and in his decisions. He could have never survived on the path he walked without it. Not many men traveled from a coal mining vil age to the drawing rooms of London in little more than a decade.

Not many men born in such a vil age would propose to Roselyn Longworth, no matter what the status of her family, finances, or reputation.

She stood in front of her door, gazing at the latch. Not for the first time with this man she suspected that she should not act capriciously. She did not think he would break down the door if she locked it. She did not even believe it would anger him.

Instead she guessed that one of two things would happen. They might have another conversation like today’s, where he explained what he would or would not accept in her behavior. Or, possibly, a chil ing formality would enter her bed the next time he came to her, and maybe remain between them for a long while. It might even stay forever.

She turned away from the door and returned to her bed. She snuffed out the lamps as she did each night and darkness shrouded her.

Perhaps he would not come, even though with her flux and his time in Kent it had been some days now. Surely he felt the way their argument stil rang through the house. He had retreated to his study and his work afterward, but maybe their words repeated in his head like they did in hers.

Her heart stil pounded when she remembered the way he laid out Tim’s guilt. One hundred thousand pounds. She often dreamed of repaying Alexia and Hayden, but such a sum could never be repaid. Never. No wonder Alexia had so mercilessly discouraged that plan to join Tim in Italy.

Only now instead she was married to a man who would gladly hang Tim with his own hands, she suspected. She could not defend her brother. She could not say Kyle was wrong. But right and wrong and justice were not the bases by which a sister judges.

One hundred thousand. How could it almost be gone? Tim claimed he needed more, and she believed him.

The most subtle movement of air pul ed her out of her thoughts.

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