The Kent Heiress (H3) by Gellis Roberta

Author:Gellis, Roberta [Gellis, Roberta]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Romance, Historical Romance, Historical, Literature & Fiction
ISBN: 1419959115
Publisher: Ellora's Cave
Published: 2009-05-07T07:00:00+00:00

He wanted her out of the room for a few minutes because he was drowning in a flood of jealousy so violent that a lifetime of masking his expression would not be enough to hide this emotion. It was utterly ridiculous for him to be jealous. He knew it was ridiculous. Hadn’t Sabrina just told him she intended to dissolve her marriage? And hadn’t she made love to him in a way that… Where the devil had she learned that? Perce felt himself flush and thanked God Sabrina had left the room. He called himself an ungrateful idiot. He had needed it, and out of love, she had given him what he needed. How dared he be jealous.

There was no sense to it. Perce knew why Sabrina had rejected his offer to travel with her. She was quite right. And Sabrina was not the kind to use people, at least not knowingly. The cold rage of jealousy caught him again. He thought of the dead on the battlefield, and each one of them had Lord Elvan’s face.

The door opened, and Sabrina came in. She removed the empty soup bowl and set a small basket of bread down on the quilt so there was room on his tray for a sheet of paper and the inkwell. Perce wrote the few lines necessary to give his address and describe his condition to his senior officer, then folded the sheet, wrote Bennigsen’s name on the flat surface, and took off his seal ring, which he handed to Sabrina.

“Will you seal it for me, please? Send it the best way to Prussian headquarters. Someone there will surely know where Bennigsen is by now.”

“Perce, what’s wrong?” she asked anxiously.

She knows me too well, he thought. “Nothing. Reaction, I suppose. I’m angry at the whole world.”

It was the best he could do, and to his mingled shame and relief Sabrina accepted it. She was distressed because she knew she could not understand or share what he had suffered, but she was respectful of such pain, unlikely to prod at it. Perce was ashamed of playing on her feelings, but he comforted himself with the knowledge that the worry in her eyes held no personal hurt. Nonetheless he found he could not eat any more when Sabrina left to seal his letter, and he put the tray aside and swung his legs out of bed, frowning as he saw the condition of his feet. Served him right, he thought, for never setting a foot to the ground when a horse was available.

Then he passed a hand over his face. He would have to buy horses and saddles. No, maybe not saddles; Sergei had cached those when they gave up the horses—no, mules.

He closed his eyes. By then there were no horses. They were all dead, poor beasts. Bravo, Major, Red. It wasn’t fair that such beautiful, innocent creatures should die in a man’s war. Tears burned behind his eyes, and he fought them back. He wouldn’t think about it.

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