The Spy Who Loved Her: Once Upon an Accident, Book 3 by Melissa Schroeder

Author:Melissa Schroeder
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi, pdf
Publisher: Samhain Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2011-03-07T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Daniel glanced around the library and sighed with relief. No matchmaking mamas were hiding in the shadows. It had been horrible since he had arrived at the party earlier in the day. Women had been thrown at him left and right. It seemed that his attendance had made everyone think he was here to find a wife.

He closed the door behind him and walked to the couch. He could not even disappear to his room. The last time he tried that, he had been accosted by Lady Fontemain who offered her daughter up on a silver platter. Along with the fringe benefits her mother could offer. It had left him feeling slightly sick and in need of a bath. He knew he was jaded, but he had never seen something so disgusting as a woman pimping herself to get her daughter married.

He moved to sit down and encountered legs and a squeak.

“What on earth are you doing?”

He looked down and found the woman he had been ordered—by his mother and Jack—to protect for the weekend. Anna was in delightful dishabille, her hair slightly mussed, her dressed wrinkled.

“I could ask you the same thing.”

She pulled herself up to a sitting position and swung her legs to the ground. “I am taking a rest.”

He crossed his arms and lifted one eyebrow.

“All right. I was hiding. I cannot seem to avoid anyone, even in my room.”

“I know the feeling,” he murmured.

She eyed him. “Someone accosted you in your room?”

His blood ran cold as he thought of what might have happened to her. “There was a man in your room?”

She rolled her eyes. “No. Lady Reynolds called on me. Just why do people behave differently at house parties?”

Despite the situation, he smiled. He could not help it. She sounded so indignant. “I have no idea.”

She humphed. “So I picked the one place that I thought the woman would not come into.”

“Really, the library?”

“There are books here. She avoids anything where she might learn.”

He couldn’t stop the laugh that burst out of him. “You definitely know the woman.”

She narrowed her gaze on him. “What are you doing here?”

He thought of his encounter and frowned. “I had the same problem, only with another mother.”

“Hmm. That would be interesting to find out who that was, but knowing you, you will not tell me. What I meant is what are you doing at this party?”

For a second, he couldn’t think of anything to say. He knew that his mother had given him a story, one about looking for a wife or some such idiocy, but he couldn’t remember really how to speak.

“Daniel.”

He shook himself. “I think that would be obvious.”

She cocked her head to one side. “No, it truly isn’t.”

He cleared his throat and settled onto the couch on the opposite end. “I am here to find a wife.”

If anything, her face lost all expression. “Oh.”

“Mother thinks it is time to find one, and I daresay I think she is right. I am getting up there in years.

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