Runaway Heart by Claudy Conn

Author:Claudy Conn [Conn, Claudy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance
Amazon: B009G9LJKG
Published: 2012-09-23T21:00:00+00:00

~ Seventeen ~

CHELSEA PRESENTED SAM and Susan Breccon with the chaperonage they needed as they walked leisurely in Kensington Gardens; however, Sam had on more than one occasion noticed and asked what was troubling her. She had smiled and said, “Naught,” but she was as blue-deviled as a girl could be.

Patrick Radway appeared and joined them as they strolled along. Chelsea tried to pay attention to what he was saying, but it was difficult, so difficult.

He gazed at her and finally gave up trying to win a smile. “What is it, Chelsea love?”

“Oh, I think I am just weary from all this gadding about …” she answered. She couldn’t tell him or anyone else the truth, that she had fallen headlong in love with Wainwright, had given her body and soul to him, only to discover that perhaps she had been nothing more than a fool. He had not visited her or been anywhere she was present in three days. She had been at first disappointed, then was surprised, and now was totally despondent. She blamed herself. This was all her fault … she had given herself to him like a tart, and he had run off rather than face her again!

“I noticed that Lord Wainwright … has not been about lately …?” Radway offered, and she felt his eyes watch her for a reaction.

“Has he not?” she said, purposely evasive.

Radway was a determined man; she saw it, and it worried her. She needed to put a stop to his constant attentions, as she wasn’t even sure she liked him.

He did make her look up sharply when he said, “Gussie tells me she has found a new seamstress and means to use her when she has her bride clothes designed.” An intensity in his eyes made her cringe.

She said with a touch of disbelief, “My aunt is getting married?”

“I believe she and Wainwright have but to set the date,” he returned.

A short, gruff laugh escaped her. “My aunt is delusional.” She was no fool. Wainwright might not love her, but he was not going to marry her aunt Augusta.

His brow shot up. “Oh … and why is that?”

“Patrick, as it happens, I know his lordship, and he has no plans of marrying Augusta or anyone like her.”

“Perhaps you don’t know him as well as you think … for as it happens, Gussie tells me he went to put his estate into order to receive his new bride!”

“Impossible. My godmother would have known it, and she has no idea where he might be …” She hadn’t meant that to slip out. Something was wrong. Suddenly an icy feeling swept over her. What was Augusta up to? What, in fact, was Patrick Radway up to, for he was obviously trying to put a seed of doubt in her mind. She didn’t trust him.

She suddenly picked up her skirts and curtly excused herself to cut into Sam’s conversation. “Forgive me, Sam … Susan, I must hurry and catch Aunt Daisy before she leaves.”

“Yes, but—” Sam objected.

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