Winter's Woman (The Wicked Winters Book 9) by Scarlett Scott

Author:Scarlett Scott [Scott, Scarlett]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, romance, Historical
Publisher: Happily Ever After Books, LLC
Published: 2020-11-18T16:00:00+00:00

The hour was desperately late. So late, the faint strains of dawn were lighting the sky where Evie had been keeping a window vigil in between frantic pacing of the chamber as the knot of worry in her stomach doubled, tripled, and finally quadrupled in size.

Theo had left their lessons without a backward glance earlier that day, and then he had left the townhome entirely. What was worse—he had yet to return. She knew because the window at which she stood, the carefully made bed behind her, and the chamber she had been pacing were all his. She had gone to his chamber after he had not accompanied her in the library as had become his habit to listen to the conclusion of Romeo and Juliet.

Without him there, Evie had not had the heart to continue on. It had not felt right. Nothing without him felt right. She could not explain the change that had come over her this last fortnight. Devil Winter made her feel the way Romeo made Juliet feel. But she had no wish for their tale to be a tragedy.

She never wanted her fortnight with him to end.

But the evidence it already had was before her. Unless something had befallen him, which was worse. The healing wound on her arm throbbed, a constant reminder of the unknown danger swirling around her. If something had happened to Theo because of her, she would never forgive herself.

Evie bit her lip to stave off a stinging rush of tears.

The brace of candles she had lit hours ago was down to scarcely any wick and wax. She turned away from the shadows in the street below and paced the Aubusson some more.

Where could he have gone?

When would he return?

Before her troubled mind could continue whirling with any more questions, the door swung open at last. And there he stood.

A gasp tore from her.

His face was bloodied, his white cravat hanging loosely about his neck, also stained scarlet, as if it had been sprayed with blood. The linen of his shirt was similarly marred. A dark bruise colored the flesh beneath his left eye, rendering the blue more startling as their gazes clashed.

“Christ,” he muttered. “What the bloody hell are you doing here? I told you never to come to my chamber again.”

She swept forward as he kicked the door closed behind him without caring to blunt the sound. The portal slammed shut, echoing in the stillness of the night. The worry that had sunk its vicious teeth into her over the course of the night relented, but only a bit. He was injured. She had no idea where he had been, what he had done, or how he had received his injuries.

But he had returned.

He was here with her now, and that was the most important fact. She would fret over the rest later.

“What happened to your face?” she asked, not giving a care for propriety or the manner in which they had last parted.

She reached for him, rising on her toes to cup his face in her hands.

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