The Lady Is Innocent by Rebecca King

Author:Rebecca King
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: R L King
Published: 2015-01-06T22:00:00+00:00

The following morning, Florrie sat at the breakfast table in nervous anticipation. She didn’t want to be there; she was certain that last night’s behaviour was emblazoned across her forehead for everyone to see. She felt like a harlot, and had behaved like a wanton. Pie must be horrified at what she had done with him. She felt her cheeks flush with acute embarrassment and wondered whether she should just hide under the table and come back out when breakfast was all over, and Pie had left the house.

The stubborn woman from last night who had refused to be cowed by him had been replaced by a nervous wall flower who wished she was anywhere else. Each time someone appeared at the door, her heart began to hammer a little louder. Would Pie be angry? Or would he be disgusted with her for her recklessness?

She still couldn’t believe what had happened. Her first time should have been slow and gentle, but she couldn’t explain last night. Whatever he had created within her had burned with desperation that she had not been able to ignore. They had shared intimacies that still made her swallow nervously and this morning, having woken up beside him, she knew she had to take the coward’s way out.

Until she had thought about what had happened, and why, and what she was going to do about last night, she needed to avoid Pie. Oh, it was impossible to go back now. She was irrevocably changed forever and, if she was blatantly honest, a part of her didn’t regret what she had done for a second. She was more nervous about Pie’s reaction. She knew that he was an honourable man and seemed to have appointed himself as her unofficial protector. She had left the bed this morning purely because she didn’t want his condemnation or, to be frank, his further attentions. Her body was already sore from their intimacies last night. She was certainly not in any condition to accommodate another round of sensual wrestling with him if he tried to seduce her. Again, her cheeks flamed in embarrassment as a small voice reminded her that she hadn’t exactly taken any seducing.

“Are you alright, Florrie? You look a little flushed this morning,” Harriett declared softly, offering her the toast rack. Florrie took a piece and placed it absently on her plate before staring thoughtfully down at the butter.

“I am fine, thank you.” She cast a furtive glance at Hugo who was studying her closely. “I just didn’t sleep very well last night.

“I take it Pie caught up with you?” Hugo drawled wryly. He had heard them arguing from downstairs and had crept up to bed in the hope that they still wouldn’t be raging at each other by dawn. As it was, all had quietened down relatively quickly, although from the look of Florrie this morning, she was still struggling to come to terms with what had been said.

“I am coming with you to the tavern to meet Dexter,” Florrie declared as though she sensed his thoughts.

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