The Love of a Rake by Linda Rae Sande

Author:Linda Rae Sande [Sande, Linda Rae]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Linda Rae Sande

Chapter 24

A Visit with a Countess

Two-thirty in the afternoon

Lady Clarinda Norwick screwed up her face and watched as the baby she held responded with a grin. “You are a little flirt, aren’t you,” she whispered as she used a forefinger to rub the girl’s belly. “Just like me,” she added, stunned at the sudden feeling of sadness that settled over her just then. She looked up and around, wondering if the ghost of her first husband, David Fitzwilliam, might be watching them.

Chiding herself on thinking he might be in the nursery, Clarinda returned her attention to her first daughter. Having just finished nursing, her eyelids drooped in a familiar manner. “Going to fall asleep on me again, are you?” Clarinda whispered. She leaned down and placed a kiss on Diana’s forehead, rather satisfied she had been able to put the babe to sleep so easily. The nurse never seemed to manage the feat with the older twin girl. The younger one, far more peaceful and easily put to sleep, was already napping in the nearby bassinet.

“I admit to feeling rather jealous of the attention you shower on your daughters,” Daniel Fitzwilliam said from where he leaned against the nursery door’s frame. “But then I remind myself that someday you will do the same for my sons, and I find I cannot find fault.”

Clarinda regarded her husband with a grin. “I should be the one who is jealous at how much attention you pay to the girls,” she countered. The man had become quite adept at holding both babes in his arms whilst he sat in his study and took turns making faces at them. She was quite sure he had held them for nearly an hour the day before, and only gave them up to the nurse because their nappies needed changing.

“But you cannot, as I shower you with attention every night once they are abed,” he said as he moved into the nursery and kissed her forehead. Clarinda leaned her head back and angled it to kiss him on the lips. The thought of just what he had done the night before had her entire body shivering in response. The kiss merely reminded her of his gentle caresses and the pleasures he had incited. Another week, and she would once again welcome him into her body. The thought had her insides tumbling about in a most pleasant series of sensations.

“Attention I spend the entire day looking forward to,” she murmured happily.

Daniel kissed her again. When he pulled away, he reached down and took the baby from her arms. “As do I. However, right now you have a visitor in the parlor,” he said, “So it’s my turn to put her to bed,” he added as he moved to place the babe in the bassinet she shared with her twin sister.

Clarinda frowned. “Who is it?” she asked as she rocked herself out of the chair and up to her feet. She shook out her skirts, relieved when she didn’t feel any wet spots in the sprigged muslin.

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