The Unflappable Miss Fairchild by Regina Scott

Author:Regina Scott [Scott, Regina]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Regency Romance
Publisher: Belgrave House
Published: 1998-09-09T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Anne leaned against her bedchamber door, feeling her cheeks burning in mortification. How could she have been so brazen? To press herself against him like a common lightskirt! If he had had any respect for her before, she had totally destroyed it tonight. From the minute he had appeared in the door to the box, she had been capricious, vexatious, argumentative, and wanton. The only thing he could feel for her was complete disgust.

But there had been a moment, in his arms, when she’d felt his heart speed, his breath quicken, his arms tighten. That and the way he had kissed her so, well hungrily, told her that he desired her. And then he had broken from her, his green eyes shocked. She shuddered at the memory.

Fool! She yanked off her evening gloves, wincing at the pain in her upper arm. What did you think? You could win his love where so many others have failed? That giving him your body would somehow prove your love? Lady Scanton’s words echoed in her mind again--”You simply don’t have what it takes to entertain a man like Chas Prestwick for long.” She had proven that tonight.

What had she been trying to accomplish by allowing, no encouraging, him to kiss her? Deep down, did she really want to be like Elizabeth Scanton? She rejected that thought with a shudder as she undressed. Then what? Was she trying to show him that she could compete with the other women for his attentions? Or had she fallen so quickly in love with him that nothing else mattered? Was she in love with him, or was it the romance of him that appealed to her?

What had he said, “I truly care about you”? How she had reveled in those wonderful words. But they could not longer be true. He would never want to call on her now. She had ruined everything.

Too tired to cry, she climbed into bed and lay there watching her one fire of the day die to ashes. Even that reminded her of how Chas’ feelings for her must be dying. It was a long time before sleep claimed her.

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