Three Kisses Before Christmas by Wilde Tanya

Author:Wilde, Tanya
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Regency, Historical Romance, Strong heroine
Publisher: Tanya Wilde
Published: 2021-05-04T16:00:00+00:00

WOLFSTAN CLENCHED HIS fists to keep from pursuing Rebecca. Something was different about her. Something he hadn’t noticed until then. She was more forthright. Stronger. More sure of herself. Not that she had been fragile before. She had always been a force of nature in his eyes, regardless of her awkwardness in social settings. Yet an alteration was afoot. Subtle, but it set off ripples of awareness in Wolfstan’s gut.

He recognized the emotion he had glimpsed in her eyes before she fled the scene. He had felt it himself.

Anger.

He bit down on his jaw. He hadn’t meant to eavesdrop.

Liar.

He had meant to do exactly that. Had spotted her heading for the stairwell and had known by the set of her shoulders, the determined jut of her jaw, she was in search of Lonsdale. So Wolfstan had followed. He had shamelessly pressed his ear up against the door and eavesdropped.

He stared at Lonsdale.

They had been friends ever since he could remember. And ever since he could remember, they’d had each other’s backs. He understood, in a way, that Lonsdale only wanted what was best for his sister. His methods, on the other hand, lacked finesse. His friend had crossed the line.

“You should have told me,” Wolfstan said.

“I did not believe you would appreciate my candor.”

“Because I never expressed my feelings for your sister?”

“Amongst other things.”

“I had my reasons,” Wolfstan said. “But I suspect you theorized as much since you used my cousin to manipulate me. Superbly done, Lonsdale.”

Lonsdale sighed. “I blundered, I admit. But dammit, you are supposed to court a woman and then ask for her hand.”

“Let us not talk about how things are supposed to be done,” Wolfstan drawled with annoyance. He might have mucked about less had he not been so unbelievably panicked. Deuced desperate. For that, he wanted to throttle Lonsdale.

However, Wolfstan could not deny Lonsdale had done him a mighty favor. He had prompted Wolfstan into action.

“Well?” Lonsdale spoke up, crossing his hands across his chest.

“Well, what?”

“Do you not have something to ask me?”

“Nothing comes to mind, no.”

Lonsdale arched a brow. “You haven’t formally asked for my permission to court my sister.”

“Since you have made your sister more wary than she’d already been, I am not in the mood to formally ask you for anything.”

“I suppose I deserve that,” Lonsdale muttered.

“Do not give up,” Caroline echoed. “Rebecca will come around. Give her time to process your proposal.”

Wolfstan was not so sure that Rebecca would ever come around. Truth be told, he was not sure of anything anymore.

It would be like wedding my brother.

Her words had been teeth-grinding, but not because she thought of him as her brother. Wolfstan suddenly did not believe that any more than he believed the sky green. Neither did she, he was sure. He had not mistaken the underlining note in her statement—one he couldn’t quite decipher—but a note that held no supreme conviction.

The revelation did not give as much hope as it gave him pause. Could it be that her reservations

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