Scandal Becomes Her by Shirlee Busbee

Author:Shirlee Busbee [Shirlee Busbee]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2007-08-18T22:00:00+00:00

Arriving at Wyndham Manor, Nell sought out her rooms and Becky’s eager services. A hot bath was waiting for her and later, wearing a nightgown of softest lawn and a warm dressing robe of amber velvet, she nibbled at the tray of food put before her.

“Now you eat that up right now!” fussed Becky, her big brown eyes full of anxiety. “What will his lordship say when he discovers that you haven’t hardly swallowed a morsel?”

Nell pushed away the half-eaten bowl of broth. “I only fell,” she protested. “No bones are broken. I’m fine. I was just…badly shaken.”

Becky sniffed. “If you say so, my lady. And since you aren’t going to eat anything else, I’ll just take these things back to Cook, who will probably go off in a decline when she sees how little you appreciate her hard work.”

“Oh, Becky, please don’t scold so,” Nell begged, her head beginning to throb, terrible memories crawling into her thoughts.

Becky’s face softened. “Very well, my lady. You go get in bed now.”

Nell followed Becky’s orders and had just settled into bed with a huge bank of pillows at her back when Julian walked into her bedroom. He came up to the edge of the bed and sat down.

Taking one of her hands in his, he asked, “Feeling better now?”

She forced a smile. “Yes. I’m sorry that I caused such a disruption. It was only a fall.”

His gaze searched hers. “That may be, but I don’t believe that it was your fall that caused you to faint in such a dramatic fashion at the Westons’s.”

“It wasn’t,” she admitted. Looking away from him, she bit her lip. “My lord, that, that portrait where I fainted, who is it?”

He looked surprised. “My cousin John and his son, Daniel. Don’t you remember? I’ve spoken of both of them to you.” Staring at her averted features, he leaned forward. Catching her chin with one finger, he pulled her face around to him. “What is it, Nell? Tell me!”

Nell swallowed. “Do you remember,” she began, “when I told you about my nightmares?”

He nodded, frowning.

“Well, do you remember that in the first one, I said that I dreamed that a man was murdered?”

Their gazes locked. Her voice trembling, Nell said, “I recognized the man in my nightmare…The man I saw murdered was your cousin John.”

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