The Scoundrel Falls Hard EPB by Sophie Jordan

Author:Sophie Jordan [Jordan, Sophie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2022-08-23T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

Sixteen days until the wedding . . .

Kellan looked down at the list in his hand. He was halfway through it and it was already morning. He woke early. He had not slept well. After the incident with the burglar, he could not fall back into easy slumber. His blood pumped too swiftly and he’d stared wide-eyed into the dark, wary of the smallest sound. He’d risen before dawn and started on the tasks before light even streaked across the sky.

He tucked the list into his pocket and finished preparing her breakfast.

Gwen Cully underestimated him. On multiple counts. It should not irk him, given how they had met. Why should she think well of him? And yet it did irk him.

She had thought he betrayed his promise and left the morning after they struck a bargain. He supposed it only natural she thought so little of him, but he had given his promise to stay a year with her. He had promised he would help her and he would. In time, when the days rolled into weeks and months, she would see that he wasn’t going to slip away in the night. Eventually she would see that she could trust him.

Holding the tray, he took the stairs to her bedchamber. He would have to convince her that he was not eight years old and he could do more than the three items she assigned him. A little teasing might be in order. Perhaps he would even make her smile again, as he had done last night. Her smithy might have been robbed, but he had made her laugh. Before she caught herself and killed all attempt at lightheartedness and fun. Before she had turned all stern and called him Mr. Fox like he was some stranger on the street and not a man she would soon marry.

If that even happened.

They had made an agreement he intended to keep, but he wondered if she would. Would she back out?

It was her idea, true, and she had expressed sound reasoning as to why they should marry, but she was an independent female, rooted in self-sufficiency. He did not envision her releasing her independence so easily. Saying you were going to do something was entirely different from actually doing it.

He knocked once on her slightly ajar door before entering with her tray.

She was already awake and dressed.

He frowned. “I hope you do not bear weight on your foot.”

“I hopped on the other one. Promise.” She put down the book she was reading and pushed up a little higher on the bed as he approached, eyeing the food on the tray. “Thank heavens.”

“Hungry?” he asked.

“Bored.”

“Is your book not interesting?” he asked as he settled the tray of food on her lap.

“I’ve read it before. I’ve actually read everything in the library at least once.”

“A village this size does not have a subscription library?”

“Not yet. Although there is Mr. Gupta. He has an extensive library and is kind enough to loan out his books.”

“Perhaps you should prevail upon him.

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