Spring Skies Over Bluebell Castle by Sarah Bennett

Author:Sarah Bennett
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780008314804
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2019-03-17T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

For the rest of the afternoon, Arthur was the absolute soul of propriety. Having made a copy of the family tree on his printer-cum-scanner, he followed Lucie to the library mezzanine and showed a great deal of interest in the beginnings of the new filing system she’d set up. At no point did he give any hint of mention of that super-charged moment in the dining room when he’d stroked her hair and for one blissful, foolish moment she’d thought he might want to kiss her. He made sure to not lean in too close as they sat side-by-side to review the items she’d flagged as warranting further study once the initial full survey had been completed, and all in all acted exactly as he had during all of their other encounters—scrupulously polite.

When their knuckles made accidental contact as she handed him the frame holding the sketch of Eudora, it was Lucie who leapt back as though burnt whilst Arthur gave no sign of noticing either the brief contact or her stupid over-reaction to it. By the time the daylight was fading outside, she was beginning to wonder if she’d imagined the whole thing.

I think it’s very pretty. A shiver rippled down her spine. No. She hadn’t imagined that, nor the way he’d stared down at her as though he wanted to devour her.

‘Here.’

Lucie blinked at the cardigan Arthur had unhooked from the back of her chair. ‘What’s that for?’

Arthur draped the garment over the arm of her seat. ‘My mistake. I thought you were getting chilly.’

Was he teasing her? She stared at him, trying and failing to read anything other than a mild concern in his warm hazel eyes. ‘I…umm, it was nothing,’ she stuttered, for what else was she going to say? ‘I was thinking about that moment when you almost kissed me?’ Hell would freeze over before she told him the truth. And melt again before she would utter the question burning her tongue. ‘Why didn’t you?’ If it was because she’d been stupid enough to open her mouth and say they should get back to work, she’d kick herself from here to next Tuesday. It had been a reflex action, a fleeting attempt by her conscience to remind herself of her position at the castle, rather than any kind of serious protestation.

She pinched the underside of her arm to banish the foolish notion. If he’d wanted to kiss her, he would’ve kissed her. Arthur didn’t strike her as the kind of man who was backward about coming forward. He was always in motion. Even when he’d given her his full attention as she’d shown him the photos on her tablet, he’d been moving. Tapping a pen he’d picked up against his thigh one minute, running a hand through his thick hair the next. He was never still. It made sense that he’d been a sportsman at school, he had that kind of solid physique and confidence in his movements she remembered for her own classmates.

She risked a glance at him from under her lashes, but his attention was once more on the tablet.

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