She's No Princess by Laura Lee Guhrke

Author:Laura Lee Guhrke
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: Romance, Man-Woman Relationships, England, General, Regency, Historical, Fiction, Love Stories
ISBN: 9780060774745
Publisher: Avon
Published: 2006-05-30T07:00:00+00:00

Lucia could not sleep. Instead, she lay in the dark, feeling bemused, baffled, and quite unappreciated.

Ian Moore was a statue after all, she decided, sat up, and punched her pillow with her fist. He was inhuman, just as she'd thought. She punched her pillow again. She'd practically thrown herself at him, and one short kiss was all she'd gotten for her trouble. Proper, stuffy, thick-witted Englishman.

Her frustration only somewhat relieved by her abuse of her pillow, Lucia lay back down. The man is impossible, she thought, aggrieved. Does he have to be so damned honorable all the time?

Ian's kiss had easily vanquished all memory of Lord Haye's insipid mouth. Those few brief moments of Ian's mouth on hers had made her ache with a strange, tingly warmth, a wonderful feeling that had enveloped her whole body from her head to her toes. Unlike Haye, Ian knew how to kiss.

Lucia closed her eyes and pressed her fingers to her lips, that warmth flooding through her again as she remembered that kiss and how it had made her feel. As if she were floating and melting and—

"Maria Santissima!" she moaned and sat up, realizing the awful truth.

She liked him.

Why she liked him was an inexplicable mystery. He was stuffy. No doubt about that. He was also haughty, autocratic, and far too concerned with the proprieties. Sometimes, like tonight, she found him so infuriating, she didn't know whether to hurl heavy objects at his head or wrap her arms around his neck and keep him there until he kissed her properly. But earlier in the evening when she'd made him laugh, her heart had felt a sweet, queer piercing sort of joy like nothing she'd ever experienced before. He had great cares, she knew, great responsibilities, but when he laughed, those tiny worry lines between his brows disappeared.

And what had she gotten for easing his cares? One little kiss, just enough to leave her wanting more. Then, if that wasn't bad enough, the ungrateful man had snubbed her. Called her a flirt and a tease.

Which she was, sort of. But really, she thought with justified outrage, it was hardly her fault he was the only man on earth who didn't appreciate flirtation and teasing.

Lucia sighed, admitting another truth as awful as the first.

He didn't like her.

A little knot formed in the pit of her stomach at that admission. Men usually liked her. Men liked being flirted with and teased and made to laugh, but not Ian. She might have made him laugh tonight, but that didn't mean anything. He didn't like her.

A wave of loneliness swept over her. She wished there was someone here she could talk to, but there was no one. Grace was a lovely, warm person, but Lucia did not know her well enough to confide in her, and anyway, she could hardly talk to Ian's sister-in-law about her confused feelings. Oh, how she wished Elena were here. Or, better yet, her mother.

Mamma.

That was who she needed. Lucia had always

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