Some Like It Wild by Teresa Medeiros

Author:Teresa Medeiros [Medeiros, Teresa]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Tags: Historical
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2009-11-11T23:00:00+00:00

That night Pamela once again found herself tossing and turning as if the mattress of her cozy half-tester had been stuffed with stones instead of feathers. She was still haunted by the genuine horror she had glimpsed in Crispin’s eyes while she sat bleeding at his feet. Perhaps he was simply dismayed that his plan to kill Connor had gone awry. But what if losing the fleuret from the tip of his epee really had been an accident? What if they were no closer to finding her mother’s killer than they had been yesterday?

She rolled to her back, gazing up at the half-tester’s canopy. The sooner they exposed her mother’s killer, the sooner she and Connor could put an end to their travesty of a betrothal. She would be free to break off their engagement and disappear with her sister and the reward and he would be free to court a more suitable bride—some earl’s pampered daughter or the haughty niece of a marquess, perhaps.

She flopped to her side, wincing at the sting of the scratch on her forearm. The sash window was safely secured, misty beams of moonlight the only intruder on this restless night.

The room suddenly felt unbearably stuffy. Pamela kicked away the blankets. After lying there for a few more interminable minutes, she rolled out of the bed, marched over to the window and threw up the sash. A cool night breeze poured into the room, caressing her fevered brow. She leaned out the window and searched the shadows below but detected no hint of movement.

Sighing, she returned to the bed. Folding her hands beneath her cheek, she lay gazing at the open window. Perhaps in the most secret corner of her heart, she had hoped Connor might come to collect his prize. If she drifted off to sleep now, would she awaken to find his shadow looming over her in the moonlight? And if she did, would she have the strength to send him away or would she open her arms to welcome him into her bed?

Groaning, Pamela scrambled back to her feet. She snatched up her faded dressing gown from the back of a nearby chair and shrugged it on over her nightdress. If they were going to trap her mother’s killer, then she and Connor had much to discuss, did they not? And it was nearly impossible to do so beneath the watchful eyes of the duke, his suspicious sister and their nosy army of servants.

She eased open the door and peered both ways down the deserted corridor. Perhaps it was time to show Connor Kincaid he wasn’t the only one who could sneak into someone’s bedchamber in the dead of night.

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