The Christmas Foundling: A Christmas Regency Romance (Belles of Christmas: Frost Fair Book 5) by Martha Keyes

Author:Martha Keyes [Keyes, Martha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Paradigm Press
Published: 2020-12-05T00:00:00+00:00

The Present

Lydia watched Thomas’s lashes flutter and close, only to open again for a moment, droop, shut, and repeat. He was fighting sleep, but the calming of the bottle he was drinking seemed to be quickly winning out, and his eyelids finally closed more firmly.

She glanced at the door connecting her room to Miles’s and stared at it thoughtfully. She still wasn’t certain whether to be glad or regretful over what had happened in the corridor. She had wondered for a moment if Miles might invite her into his bedchamber after their kiss—and at the realization that she didn’t know whether she wished for or dreaded it. Her emotions were in a tangle, and she hardly knew what she wanted anymore.

With their kiss, hope had burgeoned within her. She had certainly initiated the kiss, but Miles had returned it with a fervor that had set her on fire—but brought on a sliver of misgiving in retrospect. How could she want his affection so desperately while also fearing it? She wanted reassurance that he didn’t regret marrying her, that he didn’t wish he had married Miss Kirkland, and the kiss had felt like just that.

But perhaps she had misinterpreted it. Perhaps it was another instance of the very thing she had spent the last few months avoiding: evidence of his wish for a return to intimacy between them, a persistent hope that she could still give him an heir.

She clamped her eyes shut, aggravated with herself and the complete mess she was in. The hesitancy and apology she had seen in Miles’s eyes earlier? How could that possibly come as a surprise? She confused herself with how back and forth she was in her thoughts and feelings—of course he would be confused as well.

She rose from the chair and went to place Thomas in his cradle. She was still in her evening dress, her hair still coiffed. It was only in the last year that she had called for her maid at night. Before that, Miles had helped her undo the fastenings on whatever dress she was wearing and then brushed out her hair.

Lydia felt the familiar pang of longing then went and pulled the bell for Sarah.

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