The Seduction of His Wife by Tiffany Clare

Author:Tiffany Clare [Clare, Tiffany]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2011-01-31T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

In my heart, I know there is no hope of your return. Why can’t I move on? Forget?

After receiving the letter from Waverly, she hadn’t expected him to call on her at home. Her maid had knocked on her door just past breakfast. Emma had rushed down to the parlor in fear of Richard finding another man calling on her. She couldn’t deal with another barrage of accusations. Her relationship with her husband was growing. She’d not chance ruining that.

Waverly relaxed in a chair, ankle crossed over his knee as if he had every right to make himself feel at home in her house. He did not stand on her entrance. Which was well enough; she didn’t want to pay him any polite kindnesses, either.

His clothes were rumpled, as though he’d slept in them. His shirtsleeves were rolled up, waistcoat wrinkled and improperly buttoned, his hair unwashed and greasy. Stubble lined his angular jaw … Was the man fraying around the edges? Or was this just overindulgence from the night before?

She cleared her throat. “I made it clear you weren’t invited here. I’d rather not make a scene by having the servants physically remove you.”

“Touché, darling.” He swirled a glass of amber liquid. “Touché.”

Obviously, he also thought he could help himself to the decanter. She changed her mind about her husband finding her in the company of another man; she wished Richard would walk in. But then, Richard still didn’t know anything about her paintings. And of course, she couldn’t trust that Waverly wouldn’t state his reason for being here.

Hands clasped tightly in front of her, she gave him a stern glare. “What do you want, Waverly?”

“To chat.” Stupid man that he was, he shot her his snake smile. He was goading her, pricking at her ire intentionally. She’d not give in to his cruelties so easily this time.

“I find that hard to believe. You’ve set out to blackmail me. Not something a friend would do.”

“Ah, but you’ve assured me we are no longer friends.” He drank the rest of the liquor in his glass and set it on the floor since there wasn’t a table nearby. “Perhaps you’d like to come and sit on my knee.” He patted his hand to the place he wanted her to sit. “We could play it very differently that way.”

The blackguard! She would not show her discomfort at this whole situation.

“Why are you doing this? We were friends.”

“We were never friends, love. You were a means to an end. I’ve just needed to move things along a little faster after an unexpected turn in events.”

What was he talking about?

Waverly stood from the chair and prowled closer to her, eyeing her as though she were potential prey. She held her ground and tilted her chin up to meet his gaze defiantly.

“Never understood your devotion to your marriage. Had you fallen for my charm early on, we’d never have come to this pass in our relationship. Things would be entirely different.”

“I do not understand what you mean.

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