Snowbound with the Viscount by Galen Shana

Author:Galen, Shana
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: christmas romance novella, sexy christmas romance, christmas regency, sexy regency novella, sexy regency
Publisher: Shana Galen
Published: 2020-11-09T16:00:00+00:00

Six

“Isn’t the conservatory a wonder?” Holly asked when Adam joined her in the warm, glass-enclosed room several hours later.

He closed the door behind him and looked about. “How so?”

“I remember when Eva and John were building this room. They had pipes laid under the stone floors to provide heat and humidity to the plants. And now I step inside and feel as though I might be in India or Barbados rather than England.”

“It is rather ingenious,” Adam said, crooking a finger under his collar. “And the plants seem to thrive.”

“Oh, yes,” she agreed. “This is one of my favorite times of year to visit the conservatory. I do so adore blues and purples, and just look at them.” She smiled at the riot of purple laurentia taking over one side of the conservatory. Its star-shape always reminded her of Christmas and the star the Wise Men followed. Much of the laurentia was in shades of deep purple to paler lavender, but Eva had planted white and pink as well and the mix of colors was a joy.

“What are these called?” Adam asked, moving toward the middle of the room where vine-like stalks filled with bluish-purple five-leafed flowers reached toward the sky even as more buds swelled on the verge of opening.

“Delphiniums,” she said. “They are such a bright color.”

“They remind me of your eyes,” Adam said, smiling at her, and Holly felt her cheeks heat.

She ducked her head. “My eyes are not that color.”

He took her hand. “No, they are an even lovelier color.” He held her gaze, and she thought he might kiss her, but instead he drew her toward the far end of the room, beside the red and pink cyclamen. “I spoke with Haggerston,” he said quietly, as though he hated to profane the room by uttering the man’s name.

“And?”

“And I believe he is telling the truth. The IOU is authentic, and he did visit your solicitor.”

Holly nodded, fingering the pretty heart-shaped leaves of the cyclamen as she listened. She had always loved the way these leaves were dark on the inside and lighter green around the rim.

“I will, of course, verify everything he says. I don’t trust him any more than I’d trust a dog alone in a room with a roast, but it might take time to verify.”

She looked up, her fingers still on the flowers. “And so this ruse of an engagement will definitely need to continue past this house party.”

“I’m afraid so. Do you have any objections? Have you changed your mind?”

She shook her head. She would have been pleased for it to continue forever.

“Did you have an opportunity to think back? Did you remember anything about that September?”

“Yes, and almost everything I remember seems to corroborate Haggerston. I believe we were in London for a fortnight around that time. Edward was there as well. We stayed with him at his town house.”

“And so there was opportunity for Mr. Farthing to go to White’s.”

“There was,” she said, looking out of the glass windows

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