Sabrina Jeffries - School For Heiresses 03 by Beware A Scot's Revenge

Author:Beware A Scot's Revenge
Language: eng
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Published: 2011-11-25T23:55:55+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Dear Charlotte,

Why must you ask questions you know I won’t answer? This I will say: although I don’t much enjoy society, I don’t stay locked away, either. If I did, how could I gain you the inside information you need to help your girls? Careful, friend; if you don’t stop pestering me with questions about my identity, you may find me much less eager to pass on my gossip.

Your determined-to-remain-anonymous friend,

Michael

L achlan facedVenetia down, wishing desperately that she didn’t look so fetching in a shift, that her earlier cries of pleasure weren’t still echoing in his ears. Because her expression of horrified disbelief turned all his previous enjoyment to ashes.

“So that’s why we won’t be marrying,” he snapped. “This battle between me and yer father isn’t a game for ladies. It’s hard and cruel, and it won’t end to yer satisfaction, of that you can be sure.”

“Only because you’re both stubborn as the devil,” she said in a hollow voice.

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“Aye, I’m stubborn, but I deserve justice, damn it! And justice doesn’t mean letting him get away with what he did.”

“You’d fight him in a duel? That’s not justice. He’s an old man, not a soldier. We both know you’d win.

It would be murder, pure and simple.”

“It was damned near murder when he set his men on me, but I don’t see you crying over the unfairness of that,” he spat.

“I did,” she said softly. “I do.”

There it came again, that sympathy in her face, that heart-wrenching sympathy that made him yearn.

Damn her! There was no place in his plans for yearning.

“The point is,” he bit out, “marrying you won’t solve a damned thing. It’ll only force you into a terrible situation. And that’s assuming you could be happy with me in theHighlands at all, which is doubtful.”

“It certainly is,” she said haughtily, “if you’re meaning to kill my father.”

“I don’t want to! I want only what’s owed me.” He dragged in a heavy breath. “But if he refuses to pay, I’ll annihilate him, do ye ken?”

The vitriol in his voice made her recoil.

He struggled not to care. “I want the money. Failing that, I want to be sure he won’t send more men to kill me, and I can’t be sure of that unless he’s dead.”

“According to your image of him, you can’t be sure of that even if he pays the money.”

“Why would he kill me, then? He wouldn’t get the money back. But until the matter is settled, I can’t go back into the world. I refuse to spend my life hiding. One way or the other, this ends when he comes toScotland .”

“What if you married me?” A look of desperation crossed her face. “That would settle it. Surely he wouldn’t expose you if you were my husband. And my dowry is almost as large as his debt. You could forget about the loan.”

“Are you daft, lassie?” Opening his knapsack, he dragged out the tartan he used for warmth when he had to camp in the hills, then spread it on the floor where he’d thrown the pillow.

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