The Necklace Trilogy Complete Collection by Kat Martin

Author:Kat Martin [Martin, Kat]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781488081828
Publisher: MIRA Books
Published: 2017-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

Ethan ended his meeting with Colonel Pendleton at the War Office. He left the building and returned to the carriage awaiting him out in front. According to the colonel, no word had surfaced of Harmon Jeffries. There hadn’t been the least whiff of news regarding the whereabouts of the viscount.

Ethan had learned instead that things were heating up with the French. The prime minister and members of the cabinet were growing more and more nervous. Two weeks ago, they had asked for his help.

“We need you, Captain,” the colonel had said. “In the past, your help has been invaluable. We are hoping you’ll agree to accept just one more mission.”

Reluctantly, he had agreed, but as of yet no date had been set for the Sea Devil and her crew to leave.

“It could yet be a few more weeks,” Pendleton had said during today’s brief meeting. “Max Bradley is still on the Continent. I want him with you on this. Bradley blends in like a native. He’ll be invaluable in collecting information. Until he finishes his current assignment and returns to London, it would be pointless for you to leave.”

Now, as the carriage rolled toward his town house, Ethan leaned back against the leather seat and silently cursed. He hadn’t wanted to involve himself in the war effort again. He had done his duty—more than done it. He had been looking forward to the challenges and duties of being a marquess.

An image of Grace, her breasts a little fuller, her belly slightly rounded with his child, popped into his head. There was even a time he had looked forward to being a husband, had imagined, somewhere in the distant future, finding some sweet, malleable girl to wed and bed and be the mother of his children.

Grace wasn’t the sort of woman he had thought to marry—quite the opposite, in fact. And yet from the moment he had met her, nothing he did seemed able to get her out of his mind. He wanted her endlessly, dreamed of making love to her, remembered with startling clarity each time he had taken her. Even leaving her miles away in the country hadn’t rid her from his turbulent thoughts.

Perhaps returning to sea was the answer. He hoped so. Nothing else seemed to work.

The carriage hit a pothole, jolting Ethan against the seat. Outside the window, a pair of linkboys carrying messages for their employers ran past. A beggar dressed in rags held out a dirty hand as he stumbled along the street. Ethan plucked a coin from the pocket of his waistcoat and tossed it to the man.

Ten minutes later, the coach arrived in the exclusive Mayfair district and rolled up in front of his Brook Street town house. His mind on his upcoming voyage, Ethan departed the carriage, climbed the steep stone steps, and walked into the entry.

“Good afternoon, milord.” His butler, a man named Baines who had formerly worked for Charles, black hair graying at the temples and ineffably snobbish, stepped out of the way so that he might pass.

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