Sea of Christmas Miracles by Christine Dorsey

Author:Christine Dorsey
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: romance, love, christmas, sensual, charleston, miracles

Which just went to show again that Merry didn’t know him as well as she thought.

Thomas stood in the library staring out the window, absently watching a chickadee that sat on a magnolia branch enjoying the late afternoon sunshine. He’d bathed and changed into clothes kept for him in his room. He already toured the house, enjoying the festive decorations Merry and his mother had put up, the pine and oranges, holly and ivy. He “oohed” and “aahed” when his nieces and nephews pulled him into the parlor to see the grand cedar with its candles and garland of popcorn. And he’d answered all his mother and father’s questions, well almost all, while they fed him a hearty stew and canned pears.

But he still couldn’t understand what happened to him.

The voice. He hadn’t imagined it. Thomas was almost positive. Someone... or something, had helped him save Margaret and himself. But who? His glance strayed to the portrait above the mantel. The swashbuckling pirate seemed to return his stare. Thomas swallowed and looked away. What he was thinking was ridiculous.

Perhaps he should concentrate on trying to figure out why he’d brought Margaret here? Merry was right about one thing. His mother thought he and Margaret were the love match of the century. Well, probably not the century, because that would cover her and his father, and Merry and Andrew. But he and Margaret were destined for “happily ever after,” at least in his mother’s eyes.

Thomas leaned against the paneled wall. He knew she’d think that. And he brought Margaret anyway. Someone who hated him enough to kidnap him at gunpoint... even if the gun wasn’t loaded.

By all rights he should be in Charleston, turning Miss Margaret Howe Lewis over to the police and apologizing to Sander Rhett about missing his holiday gathering. A logical man knew insulting Rhett was not the way to make a deal with him.

And Thomas was a logical man. At least he had been until Margaret kidnapped him. Now he was hearing voices and doing illogical things... and thinking about her all the time.

She hadn’t come down to dinner and it was only his mother’s calming voice that kept him from taking the stairs two at a time to find out why. So he sat and ate and talked with his father about the phosphate mines and the rice crop. And as soon as he left the table he sent word for Margaret to meet him in the library.

He was still waiting.

Thomas stalked to the fireplace and stared up at the portrait of Jack Blackstone again and wondered if the story about his kidnapping his wife was true.

Margaret tapped on the paneled door. Without waiting for his acknowledgment she took a deep breath and twisted the knob. He turned to face her when she entered, and she steeled herself again. While in her room she thought she could see him without thinking about how handsome he was or how his dimples flirted with his cheeks when he grinned, or how one lock of dark hair kept spilling onto his forehead.

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