The School for Heiresses6- 'Wed Him Before You Bed Him by Sabrina Jeffries

Author:Sabrina Jeffries [Jeffries, Sabrina]
Format: epub
Tags: Sabrina Jeffries
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 2009-07-04T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

David spent the long cold night in dreams of Charlotte lying in his bed, all porcelain skin and wild blushes, while he and she did every wicked and lascivious thing he had ever imagined. He awakened hard and restless, his hand already doing what his body urged.

After he gained his release, he lay there staring at the ceiling, willing his heart to settle into normalcy.

What was wrong with him? Why was he back where he’d started eighteen years ago, as obsessed with Charlotte as ever?

He’d thought himself successful in putting her from his mind once he was married. Determined to make a clean start with Sarah, he had set aside the dream of him and Charlotte. And even after the hope of a decent marriage with Sarah had died, he’d managed to find his enjoyment in friends, in designing buildings, in investments.

He’d actually convinced himself that he’d conquered his mad passion for Charlotte, that writing to her as a perfectly disinterested friend had dulled the heat of youthful desire to the mere warmth of affection.

What a fool he was. His desire burned as fiercely as ever. And judging from what she’d done and said last night, it did for her as well. He’d given her plenty of chances to protest, and she’d spoken only of the logistics of it.

He swung his legs over the bed. As long as she was willing, he could bloody well handle the logistics.

To that end, he dressed and set off for the outskirts of London. He had a couple of stops to make before he reached Richmond to take Charlotte around to those properties. Fortunately, the sunny day meant he could drive his phaeton, and there’d be no room for anyone but him and her and his tiger. Her fighter footman would have to stay home; at last they would have a chance to be alone. Thank God.

He arrived at the school midmorning to find Terence racing out the door, with Charlotte speaking in a raised voice to someone inside.

“What’s happened?” David asked as he met the footman halfway up the steps.

“Mrs. Harris accosted that Mr. Watson as he was walking the property next door, and he told her some dreadful thing about the sale. So now I’m off to the solicitor’s office to see if her cousin has answered her letter yet.”

She’d talked to Pritchard’s prospective buyer? Confound the woman to hell! The last thing David needed was her meddling in that situation. He wasn’t sure what Watson might know of David’s arrangement with Pritchard, or what the bloody fellow might have told her about it.

“She’s in a fine temper, sir,” Terence went on. “This might not be the best time to visit.”

“I’ll be sure to tread lightly.” At least until he could get her away and question her privately.

As he continued up the steps, he could hear her storming about in the foyer, complaining to the butler. “That little worm of a man ought to be shot! How dare he speak to me that way? He is as bad as Mr.

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