Touch of the Wolf by Krinard Susan

Author:Krinard, Susan [Krinard, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Romance, Fiction, General
ISBN: 9780553580181
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 1999-10-05T07:00:00+00:00

"The Lady Rowena wishes to inform you that guests have arrived," the maid said, "and she asks you to dress and come down to the drawing room for tea."

Guests. The only guests Braden awaited were members of the Convocation, the delegates who would meet to discuss the Cause and the survival of loups-garous all over the world. But Braden wasn't here. Rowena was taking charge, and that didn't seem at all like her, when she hated her werewolf heritage so much.

Cassidy finished washing up and accepted the maid's help to dress in one of her nicest tea gowns. She hurried downstairs and met Quentin on the way to the drawing room.

"Quentin, you're back!" she said. "Where is Braden?"

"He sent me on ahead—I imagine he'll be along any time now. We haven't yet caught the footman. The man seems to have vanished into thin air."

Cassidy's stomach danced a jittery little ranchera. The footman was gone. Braden would be home soon, and she longed to see him—but she still wasn't ready.

"Will you allow me to escort you to the drawing room?" Quentin said.

It was the first time she and Quentin had been alone together since the interrupted Changing lesson. The memory of his kiss, and its aftermath, was fresh in her mind. "About what happened—" she began. "I like you, Quentin. I want us to be friends. I hope nothing has changed."

He seemed almost to blush. "I quite understand. Think no more of it. I'm sure we've both had other things on our minds."

Cassidy sighed with relief. The kiss obviously hadn't meant anything to Quentin, just as she suspected. "I was told that we have guests," she said. "Are they here for the Convocation?"

"Hardly." Quentin strolled down the hall at a deliberately slow pace. "Lord Leebrook and Lady Beatrice are unexpected arrivals—the descendants of my great-aunt Grace, who chose to live as humans among humans. Braden considers them personae non grata at Greyburn; luckily he's not here."

"They chose to live as humans?"

"Quite. My great-aunt Grace married a human marquess, and they raised their children to ignore their were-wolf blood and abilities. Lady Beatrice, Grace's widowed daughter, has been hosting Rowena in London for the past several Seasons. Rowena and Lady Beatrice's niece, Lady Alice, made the social rounds together. It was part of Rowena's bargain with Braden." He buffed his fingernails on his immaculate jacket. "Ro's been trying to get out of the bargain ever since. She wants to live like the Sayerses, and marry a human."

"That was why Braden went to London to bring her back here," Cassidy said.

"And now the Sayerses have arrived at just the right moment. They are very much on her side. I discern Ro's devious mind at work."

"Devious" was not a word Cassidy would have used for Rowena, but there was still too much she didn't know about Braden's sister. She wondered what would happen if Braden returned in the middle of this visit.

She prepared herself to brave the haughty stares of more well-bred, well-dressed aristocrats

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