When a Rogue Loves a Woman by Samantha Holt

Author:Samantha Holt [Holt, Samantha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-02-06T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Patience took full enjoyment of the lit fire in the drawing room. The sweet warmth licked into her bones as she eyed their bounty.

Pauline Fourès had fared well considering she’d fled the safety of her protector’s home not long ago. Ever elegant, her pale pink pelisse and gown were perfectly pressed. Whatever she had been doing since they saw her last, she had been well looked after.

“I remember you,” she said, her accent making her words sound almost lyrical. “You were la fille in that awful pink dress.”

Patience glanced at Nate who was clearly suppressing a laugh.

“Yes,” Patience said through gritted teeth. “That was me.”

“I did not realize you were hunting me down,” Pauline said with a huff.

She sat on the sofa, slightly reclined as if she did not have a care in the world. Her dark hair was carefully braided around her head and held up with a silver comb. It was as though she was at a party instead of being held by two strangers. A pang of envy rolled through Patience. How could she be so calm, so self-assured?

Pauline peered at her nails. “I suppose you want something from me?”

Nate nodded and strode forward. He set himself on the chair opposite and leaned forward, elbows on knees. Even Patience’s heart did a little flutter at the movement of his lithe body and the intense expression on his face. Goodness knows how Pauline felt being on the receiving end of such a look.

“We want to protect you,” Nate told her.

The woman peered at Nate for some time before straightening a little in her seat. Whatever magic Nate was wielding, it was working. Patience should have always let him take the lead on Pauline—after all he was quite the expert on women, she thought bitterly.

Pauline waved a hand. “I had protection.”

“Sir Magnus was already tiring off you.”

She snorted. “Oui, the fool. He hardly knew what to do with a woman. I had strong suspicion he was…well…you know.” She smiled.

Patience frowned. “Was what?”

Nate shook his head. “It does not matter.”

Pauline gave her a sympathetic look. “Poor, sweet girl. You are an innocent thing are you not?”

“Hardly,” Patience protested, feeling innocent indeed.

Next to this vivacious, beautiful woman, she felt like a short, stumpy, ugly pig. No, make that a boar. A hairy, stunted, grunting boar. Each word out of her mouth felt stupid and nonsensical and every movement was awkward and bumbling. And Patience had hardly said a word or moved an inch yet!

“Where are my cousins?” Pauline asked.

“Out of town,” Patience said firmly.

“And they will be gone for long?”

Nate nodded. “As long as we want them to be.”

Pauline adopted a pout. One that made her look more attractive rather than sulky. The sort of pout that made a man want to fix all her woes for her. Patience caught herself pressing her own lips together in imitation and quickly straightened her mouth.

“You English are devious.”

“Yes we are,” Nate agreed, a gleam in his eye.

That gleam—the sort of wicked one

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