Visit From Sir Nicholas by Victoria Alexander

Author:Victoria Alexander [Alexander, Victoria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Historical Romance, Adult
ISBN: 9780739447215
Google: lO_u-3opRosC
Amazon: 0060517638
Barnesnoble: 0060517638
Goodreads: 232128
Publisher: Avon
Published: 2004-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

"Engaging and most provocative. Practically irresistible," Jules said softly.

Certainly he had accepted her proposal, but it had been contingent on her conditions and her conditions alone. Not only did he not understand that fact, but he had refused to agree to her conditions. It seemed only logical therefore that her offer was null and void even if Nicholas had not seen it that way at all. It was increasingly clear that Nicholas Collingsworth was used to getting his own way in virtually everything.

"I have run my life as I have seen fit for the last three years. I have no intention of letting a man control it now," Elizabeth said firmly.

"He makes you want to run your fingers through his hair," Jules murmured at precisely the same moment.

"What?" the sisters said in unison.

Elizabeth huffed with annoyance. "Were you listening to me?"

"No more than you were listening to me, dear sister." Jules's gaze drifted back to Nicholas. "Although I can certainly see how your thoughts might be otherwise occupied."

Elizabeth followed her sister's gaze. Nicholas was across the room at his uncle's side, and, at the moment, was raising the hand of a startlingly lovely and vaguely familiar woman to his lips in a far too attentive and entirely too charming manner. Jealousy stabbed at her and she brushed it aside. It was absurd to feel so much as a twinge of jealousy. After all, whatever she might or might not soon have with Nicholas would be temporary.

The lady leaned closer to Nicholas and murmured something in his ear. A startled expression crossed his face and he laughed. The woman favored him with an all too inviting smile. Elizabeth's jaw tightened. Still, temporary or not, she would add fidelity to her list of conditions.

"I should do something about that if I were you," Jules said.

"He does not belong to me, Jules." Elizabeth shrugged. "I have no claim on him."

"I should do something about that too." Jules studied Nicholas for a moment. "He is rather a catch."

"If one were seeking a salmon. I, however, am not in the mood for a fish course." She flashed her sister a wicked grin. "Only dessert."

"Pity," Jules said pointedly.

It wasn't a pity, though. Jules might well never understand, as she had never submitted to anything in her life. But until her husband's death, Elizabeth had spent much of her life letting other people, primarily Charles, make her decisions for her. Not simply about finances but about everything. Even Nicholas had had more of a hand in deciding her fate on that night ten years ago than she had. Worse still, it had never especially bothered her.

Now, she quite liked being an independent woman. She liked choosing the direction her life took and being responsible for herself and her sons. Indeed, she liked who and what she was, who and what she had become. She would not allow Nicholas or anyone else to take that from her.

And there was absolutely nothing to prevent an independent woman from engaging in an arrangement based on no more than prurient desire and unbridled lust.

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