So Wild a Heart by Candace Camp

Author:Candace Camp [Camp, Candace]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781460302231
Google: G-A15o1JucoC
Amazon: B009033D6Q
Goodreads: 173481
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-11-11T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Devin walked into the study and closed the door behind him with a resounding thud. Across the room Michael, Lord Westhampton, raised his eyes from the book he was reading and looked at Devin with a mildly questioning face.

"Bad day?"

Devin grimaced. "Oh. Hullo, Michael. Didn't know you were here. I thought everyone else had gone to bed."

It was almost midnight, and the house was dark. Devin, lying in his bedroom thinking about the locked door into Miranda's room, had been unable to sleep and had gone prowling.

"Just a bit of reading before sleep," Michael replied. "Sorry. Didn't mean to invade your study. Shall I leave? Or does that look on your face mean you would prefer to have a listening ear?"

"I would prefer to change my life," Devin said, disgruntled. He walked over to the teak cabinet beneath the windows and opened the door. "Whiskey? I have brandy if you'd prefer."

"Whiskey's fine," Michael replied. "And what exactly would you change about your life?"

"Living it. I don't know. Oh, Christ." He poured two drinks into fine crystal glasses and handed his brother-in-law one, then drank half the other one in a single gulp. He sighed. "What am I doing marrying that woman? I must have been out of my mind to agree to it."

"I was rather under the impression that you had no other choice," Michael pointed out mildly. "Besides, I rather liked your bride-to-be. She's quite...different."

Devin grimaced. "That's one way to put it."

"Her theories about education for women certainly made for stimulating dinner conversation."

A smile cracked Devin's face as he remembered the look on his mother's face at supper tonight when Miranda had advocated that women be allowed to attend university. "It was a livelier dinner than usual," he admitted. "But you see my point she has been here since four o'clock, not even half a day, and already she has stirred everything up. The woman is a menace."

"If you feel that strongly about it, perhaps you should cry off."

"Cry off! Are you mad? The wedding is in two days. Besides, a gentleman can't back out of it, and you know it."

Michael raised his eyebrows. "Yes, I can see how it would damage your reputation."

Devin shot him a disgusted look. "Oh, hell, Michael, you know I can't. I need the money. The Aincourts have never had the luxury of marrying for love."

"Yes, I know," Michael replied quietly.

"Of course you do. I mean, you and Rachel you had the same sort of arrangement. But it's different for you. The two of you are rational, civilized sorts. You can live in harmony do what you want, live separate lives."

"Yes. We do."

"But Miranda! She's an odd creature. She has strange ideas about things."

Michael nodded, waiting.

Devin downed the rest of his whiskey and set his glass down with a crack. "Dammit, she wants a platonic marriage!"

Michael blinked. "I beg your pardon?"

"Have you ever heard of such a thing? She says we don't love each other, so we shall go our separate ways, do what we want.

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