So wild a Heart by Candace Camp

Author:Candace Camp [Camp, Candace]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-01-22T01:11:57+00:00

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To her surprise, Miranda found that her stepsister was curled up in a chair in Miranda's room, sound asleep, when Miranda returned from the opera that night.

"What are you doing here at this hour?" she asked playfully, touching Veronica's shoulder to bring her awake.

Veronica jumped a little, startled, and looked up at Miranda, blinking. "Oh! I was waiting up for you. I wanted to hear all about the opera." She stretched, rubbing her neck. "I don't get to do anything fun! Mama says I cannot go to the opera until I make my coming out."

�I am sure your mother knows all about such things better than I."

"But I didn't get to go to the ball, either. Do you know that I've never even seen this Ravenscar fellow? And you didn't tell me about the ball. So I decided I would wait up for you and get all the latest information. Only I fell asleep."

"All right," Miranda said with a smile. "You be my maid, and then we won't have to awaken Rosie. And I'll tell you all about the opera."

"And the ball."

"And the ball."

Veronica jumped up to undo the long row of buttons down the back of Miranda's dress. Miranda described the opera house and the music, the glittering array of jewels and dresses on all the women attending. She also did her best to recall the details of the ball the arrangements of flowers, the dresses, the lights blazing from every possible place, the music that had played. Veronica listened avidly, her eyes lighting up as she imagined all that Miranda described.

"What about the Earl?" she asked when Miranda paused, seemingly done. "Don't stop there. Tell me about the Earl of Ravenscar. Did you see him tonight? Did you dance with him at the ball?"

"Yes, and yes."

"Don't stop there!" Veronica cried.

"What do you want to know? He's a passably handsome man."

"You can do better than that."

"All right. He has eyes as green as glass in the sunlight, and his hair is black as coal. There is a little scar here on his cheekbone, close to his eye. He's tall and broad-shouldered and wickedly handsome, and not at all the sort of person young girls like you should be daydreaming about."

"But are you going to marry him?" Veronica pressed.

Miranda paused, looking off into space for a moment, then back to her stepsister. "You know...I think I just might."

Chapter 9

�My lord...my lord..." The soft repeated words finally brought Devin wake.

He opened one eye and looked up to see his butler looming over him, wringing his hands and frowning. Devin growled something unintelligible and sat up.

He realized two things simultaneously as he did so: one was that he was incredibly stiff, particularly his neck; and the other was that his head was pounding furiously. The reason for the latter, he knew without even having to think. His head felt as it always did when he had consumed an excessively large amount of alcohol the night before swollen and tender and as if a thousand tiny elves were going at it with hammers from the inside.

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