The Viscount's Valentine by Chelli Larsen

Author:Chelli Larsen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: clean romance, christian romance, historical romance, wholesome, regency romance
Publisher: Chelli Larsen
Published: 2020-02-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 10

“I will not go back!” Lizzie answered Jack tersely. “I do not wish to be married to you anymore.”

“Lizzie, we cannot stay at this inn for the rest of our lives with the Viscount tied to a chair,” Edward answered, always the voice of reason.

Jack wasn’t sure why he felt as if a vice were squeezing his chest every time, she announced that she didn’t want to marry him. It shouldn’t have bothering him and yet it did. Frowning he asked, “You have wanted to marry me your entire life. What changed?”

Lizzie’s eyes widened with incredulity. She laughed, but it didn’t hold any humour. “I changed. I grew up. I was not in love with you Jack. I was in love with the idea of love, and your jawline, but it does not matter anymore.”

Andrew tipped a bit of snuff into the curve of his finger and then inhaled. “Darling, as much as I would love to continue this insanity, mother will be expecting us at Mangrove Manor. Margo and Thomas will have arrived by now with the children. You cannot expect us to disappoint the children, can you?”

Lizzie shot her cousin a look. “That was rather a low blow, do you not think?”

Andrew shrugged, the smallest of twinkles in his eye. “I know that they were looking forward to seeing you. I think Alice planned on bringing her kitten.”

Edward shuddered. “Who brings a cat across the country, in the dead of winter, in a carriage with a bunch of children?”

Lizzie couldn’t help the smile that threatened to escape when she thought of her young cousin Alice. Lizzie had always been rather fond of kittens herself. But the smile died when she thought about returning home. Somehow, she knew that if she returned, she would have to marry Jack.

Marrying Jack had been her lifelong dream. A dream that was shattered and couldn’t be placed together again no matter how hard she tried. There were some things that just weren’t meant to be.

Edward had been right; Lizzie knew that Jack couldn’t remain her prisoner. With reluctance, she turned to her cousin. “Go ahead and untie him, but I will not be returning home with you.”

Edward used his knife to free the knots that had been keeping the Viscount strapped to the chair. Jack stood and stretched his arms and legs. Pins and needles erupted just as they had every time he needed to use the necessary.

It was wonderful to be free and terrible to try and get the blood flowing again properly.

Jack glanced over to Edward. “Thank you.”

Edward had been smart enough to take step back and to keep his knife in proximity. He didn’t imagine that Jack would attack him, but one never knew. Jack’s muscular body had laid more than one man flat in the boxing ring. Edward had no desire to join their ranks.

“I say, there is no ill-will between us, is there?” Andrew asked.

Jack barked out a laugh. It sounded eerily similar to his grandfather. “No, I understand completely.

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