THE VIKING AND THE COURTESAN by Shehanne Moore

Author:Shehanne Moore [Moore, Shehanne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781619358638
Publisher: Soul Mate Publishing
Published: 2015-07-28T18:00:00+00:00

“His Grace is here, before me?”

She could no more change than she could afford to let the lions ignore her. Anyway, at least the damn thing fitted over the small lump of padding she’d tied over her stomach.

“Cyril? Oh yes. You know, I simply cannot get used to the fact he has a wife. All these years and barely a word of you, my dear. Such a dark horse. But then that’s just him.”

She smiled dazzlingly, then she turned away on the revolting shoes she’d also been forced to squeeze onto her feet. Yes, she could simply have presented herself at Cyril’s rooms happily pregnant. It wasn’t an option, any more than it was to admit she’d probably arranged the divorces of half those present, without ever seeing them face to face. The sword she had somehow fallen upon like mighty Caesar, was bigger somehow, so gargantuan it slashed her innards and her good intentions to ribbons.

Not for the first time since landing back in her own bed two months ago, Malice bit hard on her lip. Mozart played on the dais, the candles mounted on the crystal candelabras blurred in bright flames but then the ballroom was warm, wasn’t it? And she was cold as yesterday’s ashes.

How on earth could she still have that collar lying like cold and hard sickle around her neck, beneath the gauze scarf she’d draped over it and not him? Unable to have been even remotely capable of getting a discreet smithy to remove it, she’d tried filing it for ten minutes every day, herself, to no avail, because she couldn’t work open the clasp. At nights, lying naked beneath cold sheets, despite its rusty chill, it was the only thing that offered any succour, which was probably why she didn’t try harder to have it removed.

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