Transformed By A Christmas Star: A Lords of the Night novella by Sandra Sookoo

Author:Sandra Sookoo [Sookoo, Sandra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blue Tulip Publishing
Published: 2019-12-04T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

December 23, 1816

As the afternoon gloom met him at every window, Sebastian joined his brother in the library, for Manchester had requested his presence. Not that it mattered. Estelle was closeted with the duchess and two of Alice’s friends. They were doing yet another gown fitting. Tonight, everyone was engaged to some affair or another.

Perhaps, if he was lucky, he could steal another kiss from her. A queer little tremor jogged down his spine. When he’d done so last night, and knowing it was the very first she’d ever received from a man, and as, a human, the enormity of it had sunk in, but she’d felt so good in his arms, so warm and willing, and he’d broken the embrace all too soon in fear that his wolf would ruin everything.

He always did.

“Is there a reason for this summons?” he asked, not holding back on the sarcasm. There was a vague ache around his heart, and that made him cranky.

If we took him on once more, we would win. I have found his vulnerabilities, his wolf said with his teeth bared.

Sebastian rolled his eyes. He is strong and more disciplined. We would end up on our arses and you know it.

“There is.” The rumble of the duke’s voice brought his focus back to his brother. “With the exception of our altercation the other night, how has your stay been?”

“My stay?” He shot a confused glance at the duke as the other man stacked a few books and then laid them on a small, round, rose-inlaid table. “Well, my stay here has been… interesting.” His mind drifted to the kiss with Estelle once more. Never had he felt a connection with another woman that he had with her. That kiss had shaken him to his foundation; she’d felt so right, so eager albeit untried, so… lost, and he’d be lying if he didn’t admit to wanting her.

“Only interesting?” Manchester stood. He tapped his fingertips along the spines of books on a particular shelf. “When you returned to the ballroom last night, you seemed at sixes and sevens.”

“Mingling in society doesn’t agree with me,” Sebastian murmured. Why the devil did his collar feel too tight?

“Mmm.” The duke perused the books. “However, when Miss Forbes came in several moments later, she had stars in her eyes and a soft smile on her lips that wouldn’t fade.”

Damn and blast. Heat crept up the back of his neck. Should he confess all? When the duke turned slightly and glanced at him, a knowing light in his eyes, Sebastian’s shoulders drooped. No doubt the man already knew. “I kissed her.” His voice sounded decidedly rusty.

“Ah. Kissing Miss Forbes. I didn’t think you had it in you.” Manchester grinned and returned to his perusal of the book shelf. “And?”

Sebastian shrugged. “And what?”

“What have you gleaned from that event?”

The man was a plague. Just because he was a duke didn’t mean he could manipulate the lives of others around him.

Did it?

Of course it did. In his position, Manchester was a drop below royalty, damn his eyes.

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