When a Scot Loves a Lady: A Falcon Club Novel by Ashe Katharine
Author:Ashe, Katharine [Ashe, Katharine]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2012-02-27T16:00:00+00:00
Chapter 14
“Lord Blackwood!” The master of Willows Hall came from the corridor, followed by a surly Worthmore, his points drooping. “And Mr. Yale.” Lord Vale bowed with pretty grace. “Welcome back. How did you find the road in this dreadful weather?”
“Passable, sir, only in that it brought us quickly here,” Yale replied, casting a meaningful look toward the banister where his fausse amant hid behind her friend.
Lord Vale was all smiles. “Do go wash that mud from your boots and then join us in the parlor.” He gestured toward the stair. “I have had a visit this morning from an acquaintance of yours, it seems. A Mr. Seton of Liverpool. He has been most happy to wait upon your arrival, although we only hoped you would return so soon, and is now in the library.”
Leam ascended the steps and found himself facing the woman whose lips tasted like wood smoke and cherries.
“My lord,” she said smoothly, only a hint of pink remaining on her porcelain cheeks, “we did not expect to see you again so soon, or indeed at all.”
“The whelp needed tending.”
Her wood-smoke cherry lips twitched.
“Lady Marie Antoine.” Yale bowed deeply, peering around Kitty’s shoulder. “You are as lovely as ever.”
“Oh, be quiet. My mother and father and that fish-troll man have gone already.”
“But I must speak the truth, nonetheless.”
“You are abominable.”
“Your gratitude touches me deeply, ma’am.”
She narrowed her gaze. “You now expect I owe you something in return, don’t you? I had that thought while you were gone.”
“The lady spares a thought for me. Be still my heart.”
Lady Emily whirled about and with quick, firm steps disappeared along the corridor.
Kitty glanced after her. “I believe she is beginning to think you truly intend to offer for her.”
“I am all humility,” he replied with perfect amiability.
“Yes, I’d thought so. But she is a bit concerned.”
The Welshman’s mouth curved into a grin. She studied him for a moment.
“Sir, you have broken your promise to me. You said you would not tease her.” Her voice had altered, a hitch amid the smoothness. “Honestly, I do not know why I trusted you.” She turned her wide gray gaze on Leam. “I don’t know you from Adam, after all.”
Beneath the scrutiny of the thunderclouds, Leam’s throat went dry. She passed him and hurried down the stairs. For once, Yale did not utter a word.
As Leam crossed the library, Jinan stood and came toward him with a handshake.
“It’s been too long, Jin.”
“I trust you are well, Leam?” Jin settled back in a chair, at ease in the sumptuous apartment yet still slightly alien to it. The foreign, aristocratic cast of his sun-darkened features was at odds with his plain clothing, and his light eyes held sharp intelligence. Several years shy of Leam’s age, Jinan Seton had had the rule of himself before Leam had even learned English.
“I am as well as can be expected with Colin still nosing into everybody’s business,” Leam said, sitting as well.
“Yes. He sent me word shortly before you left London.
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