The Viscount's Daring Miss by Lotte R. James

Author:Lotte R. James
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2023-01-18T18:49:55+00:00

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Bobby sighed, knowing Lawrence wouldn’t let this go. She wasn’t entirely sure why it bothered her so much, his question, his probing, in this matter. It wasn’t that it was personal—somehow, they’d already ventured far into the dangerous depths of personal. Between what they’d shared after her fight this morning; and all they had before then even. But before, perhaps it had felt, less intentional. Less, pointed, as his question was now.

Even though a voice in the back of her mind whispered that his fingers, his exploration of her body last night had been very pointed and personal. Except that even then, as with all else which had passed before, it felt as if circumstances had pushed them into the murky waters of personal. The journey they were on, the increasing exhaustion, all of it, bonded them together as they faced the same trials.

However here, and now, circumstances weren’t conspiring to loosen lips.

Lawrence was doing it all on his own.

Probing into all that made her who she was.

The questions about her...methods, could be dismissed as arising from professional interest, even though her answers were far from conventional she knew, in their milieu at least. Even though her answers revealed a part of her she typically preferred to hide under a coarse, unapproachable exterior.

She’d answered him, honestly, openly, because she knew that whether or not he agreed with her, he would listen, without judgement. For all she’d heard about Lawrence before she met him, that he was a lord with a turned-up nose, that he was arrogant, and prideful, and judgemental, ambitious, jaded, and harsh, well, perhaps the rest was true to an extent, she’d seen traces of it all—save for the judgement part. If there was anyone guilty of being judgemental, unfortunately, she had to admit, it had been her.

And it had felt good to put her thoughts into words, to share them with another. Julian never asked, he merely appreciated the results—most of the time, when it didn’t cost him anything. Everyone else seemed to merely accept her talent, with no interest in it otherwise. If it could be called a talent.

Asking about Arion, however...

It hit...

Too close to my heart.

To my own past; to myself.

Glancing over at Lawrence, somewhat covertly, she found him still looking at her, waiting, quietly asking, for her answer.

And though she couldn’t tell him all of it, the polite thing to do was to answer.

Since she didn’t want to be impolite, she figured she could give the simple answer—without any sad, sorry context.

‘I found him,’ she said finally, breaking the compelling spell of Lawrence’s expectant gaze. He had this way of looking at her... Head slightly tilted downwards, eyes, not wide, but wide open, as if he wanted to...see all he possibly could. Of her. ‘A new born foal, abandoned outside the market in Kinnerston. Probably wanted to make sure his mother sold or something. I hate that market,’ she muttered angrily.

Kinnerston was one of those small, little-known places, that prided itself on exclusivity; in buyers, sellers, and horses.

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