The Secret Christmas Ciphers by Carolynn Carey

Author:Carolynn Carey [Carey, Carolynn]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, Regency, General, Fiction
ISBN: 9781477498071
Google: qFNNLgEACAAJ
Amazon: 1477498079
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2012-05-21T21:00:00+00:00

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As soon as the door shut behind Derek, Abigail lay back on the pillow and closed her eyes. A few seconds later, she opened them again. Her nap in the chair had apparently fulfilled her need for sleep, that along with the frustration of having practically succeeded in seducing Derek, only to have him called away by duty again.

What was going on? What could his father have meant about more arriving? And why would they be meeting in the library?

Abigail sat up in bed. The fire was low and the room was growing chillier by the minute. If she was wise, she’d lie back down and scrunch up under the covers, but her mind wouldn’t slow down enough to let her sleep. Something—some bit of information that she suspected was important—kept tickling the edges of her thoughts, trying to gain her attention.

She threw the covers back, thrust her feet into her slippers, and hurried over to the hearth. After tossing a small limb on the fire, she stood back and watched while flames licked around its sides until the bark ignited and the fire mushroomed.

Sighing, she dropped back into the chair where she’d waited for Derek earlier that evening. She didn’t intend to go to sleep this time.

Still, there was a good chance he wouldn’t be returning to their chamber. He’d told her farewell after agreeing to meet his father in the library. Which probably meant he’d leave without seeing her again. Indeed, he might leave town thinking she wanted him in the same way his stepsisters wanted men, merely to assuage whatever sexual urges she might be experiencing.

She couldn’t very well blame him if his thoughts led him down that path. After all, she’d rarely said a kind word to him, and tonight had been no different. She’d told him she wanted him to make love to her. She hadn’t said she admired him. She hadn’t told him that she’d been attracted to him for most of her life. She hadn’t told him that she was really quite fond of him.

And she didn’t want him to go back to his regiment, to continue risking his life, without her having the chance to confide in him about her true feelings.

If she was lucky, she’d be able to find him still in the library. She stood, hurried into her robe, and lit a candle from the flames. A few minutes later she had eased down the stairs and was approaching the library. The door was closed.

She paused out in the corridor and held her breath, leaning close to the door to see if she could hear Derek and his father in conversation. She had no desire to enter the library if the earl was still with Derek.

After a couple of minutes had passed and she still had heard nothing, Abigail realized both men could have completed their task, whatever it was, and left. The library might very well be empty. There was no way she could know for sure unless she opened the door.

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