The Most Wicked of Sins by Kathryn Caskie

Author:Kathryn Caskie [Caskie, Kathryn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Historical Romance
ISBN: 9780061491016
Publisher: Avon
Published: 2009-09-16T23:00:00+00:00

The team clopped down Rotten Row, flinging up clotted bits of soft, sandy earth in the air as Ivy and Nick glanced out, searching the Serpentine’s shore for Miss Feeney and Viscount Tinsdale.

Honestly, Nick didn’t care in the least if they ever met up with the other couple, and found himself looking at trees and flowers and splashes from fish on the water’s surface.Ivy, did not, of course, realize this, and she too was really only pretending to maintain a crow’s-nest lookout for Miss Feeney and Tinsdale.

And even though their meeting this day was not as amiable as she might have wished, Ivy actually quite liked their heated exchange—and learning both last evening and this afternoon that Nick was not quite as perfect as he seemed to be.

Somehow, silly as it sounded when she voiced the notion in her head, it made her feel calmer around the handsome actor.

In some small way, it removed her need to shine so brightly. Ivy tightened the reins and slowed the horses back to a trot. “What say you, Dominic?” she said, finally looking back at him. “Do you think we ought stop and set up in the shade of the oak tree, just there, by the water?”

“I am glad you are no longer perturbed with me.” He peered back at her, relief flooding his beautiful face. Waiting for her response.

“I never was. Your observation was correct.” Ivy sighed and transferred the ribbons into her left hand and gestured with her right. “Aye, what you said is true, but out of necessity, I assure you. If I do not regain my father’s approval, I will soon be destitute and without a family.” Her voice broke as she admitted this.

Blast. Heat itched at the backs of her eyes. “Do you agree that we should lay our picnic here or not?”

“Ivy, we’re already tardy thanks to my inadequate phaeton-driving skills.” Nick looked down, but she could see a slight creasing of his lips. “They will be looking for us.”

“We’ve been looking for them and have not seen them. Perhaps they have been delayed as well.” She separated the ribbons into each hand and pulled the horses to a halt. “Besides, we will be far easier to locate sitting still instead of driving along the Serpentine, don’t you agree?”

“I expect you are right. Here will do.” Nick leaped down from the perch. He reached up and took the ribbons from Ivy, then led the horses to a hitching post not more than a yard away and tied them off.

Hoisting the hamper with both hands, Ivy swung it down to Nick, who set it on the ground, then took her hand and guided her down the steps.

The sky was vibrant blue and the sun warm on their backs as they walked together through the cool grass, then beneath the leafy shade canopy of the great oak beside the water.

Ivy hummed as she spread the coverlet she had borrowed from Lachlan’s bed so that it abutted the ancient tree’s wide trunk.

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