Unfortunate Miss Fortunes, The by Crusie Jennifer; Dreyer Eileen; Stuart Anne

Author:Crusie, Jennifer; Dreyer, Eileen; Stuart, Anne
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-03-31T16:00:00+00:00

Elric really was gone. Lizzie couldn’t believe it—when she went through her deserted bedroom back into the workshop, there was no sign of him. She’d assumed he’d just been masking his presence, and she closed her eyes and tried to sense him, tried to conjure up the flowing colors he seemed to emanate, but the air was flat and still. She looked down, and she was barefoot. How odd—even when she didn’t deliberately put shoes on, she always ended up with something interesting on her feet. But ever since she took her shoes off last night, she’d stayed barefoot.

Never in her life had she gone against her sisters’ will—she was the peacemaker, the problem solver, the one to figure out something that would make everyone happy, or at least marginally satisfied. She’d automatically stepped into the middle of the array he’d drawn on the floor the night before, and she could practically feel him around her, hear his voice in her ear. The rat bastard. He’d told Xan where they were. For all his “oh, I’ll help you,” he’d turned around and given them up. He’d lied and betrayed them. Not only that, but he’d sent her fiancé off to the ends of the earth, and probably given him amnesia, as well, at least as far as she was concerned.

Bastard. All that shimmering charm was nothing but a charade, just like her father’s facile charisma, and beneath it—

“Stop thinking so hard.”

She whirled around. He was standing in the entrance to her workshop, as if he thought he’d be welcome. He’d changed his clothes—whether he’d literally changed what he’d been wearing into something new or had somehow found a new set of clothes, she didn’t know and she didn’t care.

“You son of a bitch,” she said.

He seemed undisturbed by her greeting. “Don’t overreact. I’m not the only one who’s arrived in this godforsaken little town. If I hadn’t told her, somebody else would have.”

“Who else has she sent?”

“Didn’t you listen to your sisters? Xantippe understands people far too well—she sent exactly the sort of men who’d most distract your sisters. Their soul mates.”

“Is that what you’re supposed to be? My soul mate?”

For some reason his laugh sounded slightly hollow. “I think Xantippe thought you wouldn’t be interested in sex. I was simply going to distract you until she arrived.”

“Why you?”

“I offered. I came to her in the first place—Xantippe always knows things, and I thought if anyone knew what was upsetting the flow, then she would. She told me it was you.”

“And sent you to stop me.”

“I told you, I offered. I have no idea what she wants with you, and I don’t really care. I just wanted to stop you from wreaking havoc.”

“And how did getting rid of my fiancé serve that purpose?”

He didn’t look the slightest bit guilty. “He was the wrong man for you, and you knew it. I just saved you the trouble of dumping him.”

“Why, how thoughtful,” she said, acidly polite. “So if you were so

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