Surrender to Love by Rosemary Rogers

Author:Rosemary Rogers
Language: ron
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 28

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“Did you see?” Alexa cried angrily. “There is no need to try and make me feel better by saying I

tried, I assure you; because even if I did—and I might as well tell you it was the most difficult thing in the

whole world to pretend that I... Well, in any case I failed! First of all, he... he just was not interested in

me in the very least. And then to make matters worse I had to lose my temper. And then... Could you

hear the things he said to me? The even worse things he implied? Why, he all but said in so many words

that he looked on me as a...a...”

“As a whore?” Orlanda inserted helpfully, making Alexa stop her pacing in mid-stride while her face

reddened.

“Oh! I didn’t mean... You know I did not mean to be... But it was his attitude! That smug, superior,

patronizing manner of his! Not that any of that excuses my lamentable lack of self-control, of course,

but...” Alexa’s face tautened, her eyes slitting like those of a cat. “Do you know that he even dared

suggest that he wanted Maddalena to...to replace me? ”That ravishing blonde,“ he called her. Hah! ‘A

real woman,’ I think, were his next words. And...”

“Please, my dear, please!” Orlanda held up a warding off hand that seemed to droop from the weight

of the rings she wore on it. “If you think that Maddalena might put our Viscount in a better frame of mind,

then you ought to be practical and sensible about it, should you not? And since you seem to have an

attraction—or is it a weakness? —for him, perhaps...?” Orlanda raised delicate eyebrows that implied

everything she had left unsaid, and Alexa, who had opened her mouth to make a hot denial, suddenly

started to bite her lip.

“Well?” Orlanda said encouragingly. “Shall I send for Maddalena and have her go to him? After all,

my love, I have my reputation to consider, you know. Since you didn’t suit him...”

“But that was only because I let him make me so angry!” Alexa said rather shamefacedly. “The next

time...I mean... Well, I do not enjoy admitting defeat! And he is still here, is he not? This time I will be the

victor, I promise you that, even if I have to swallow my own pride for the moment.”

Nicholas had been almost asleep, or perhaps he had been asleep and dreaming. Between the

sweet-smoke-filled room and the constantly moving patterns that formed faces and pictures and places

he had been in and some scenes he didn’t even want to remember, he had at some point felt, before he

heard, the music. Only a guitar, which sounded very far away—so far as to almost be a part of his

memories only; nothing he was really experiencing. He knew he had had too much of the pipe of deceitful

dreams and that he should not have allowed himself to give in to weakness, but it was too late to think of

that now, when he had reached the place where there was no boundary line between fantasy and reality.

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