A Warriner to Protect Her by Virginia Heath

Author:Virginia Heath
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-05-20T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Fifteen days and thirteen hours remaining...

With only four days to go till Christmas Eve, Letty was determined to get into the spirit of the Season despite everything that was presently wrong with her life. Even if one put aside the trials and tribulations of an uncle who had betrayed you and a gnarly old earl who intended to wed by you by force, then potentially kill you for your money, or the sad fact that not one of the London newspapers Jacob read so avidly had printed any story suggesting she was missing or so much as missed, there were more pressing matters which Letty found vexing. All of them involved the eldest Warriner and her stupid, pointless feelings for him.

Why Letty was so besotted with the surly brute, she could not say. He was nothing like the man she had promised herself she would fall in love with. Not that she was in love with Jack, of course. Only a fool would develop such a powerful emotion for a man who largely behaved as if she didn’t exist. Ever since their kiss five days ago, he had either avoided being left alone with her, or treated her like somebody suffering from a delusional mental state. Yes, he was polite and more sociable than he had been. When he was accompanied by any one of his brothers, he laughed and chatted to her as if she were one of them. But if she tried to corner him on his own he bolted. On that fateful night, he had dismissed her one and only attempt at seduction as merely being a weakness of the mind brought about wholly because she had been distraught. As if she, Letty Dunston, thwarter of kidnappers and now master baker, was even capable of behaving like such a ninny.

To save face, she had turned into Violet once more and gone along with it, when in truth his speedy about-turn from ardent, passionate lover to patronising, overbearing protector had hurt. Letty had kissed Jack because her body had told her to, because being held in his arms had made her forget about Layton, Bainbridge and the danger she was in. Because it simply felt right. And not, as he had oh-so-reasonably stated, because she had been in a charged emotional state, brought about by fear. She had been in a charged emotional state all right, only it had been brought about by being in such close, intoxicating proximity to him.

And to make matters worse, and perhaps even more galling than being chastised like a child for wanting something she couldn’t have, was the sorry fact that she still wanted him. Body and soul. Every loyal, upstanding, brave solid inch of him. He had pushed her away and then, to her utter mortification, informed her he would rather pretend it hadn’t happened. Letty was so angry at him, and so utterly demoralised and humiliated by his rejection, that five days had done nothing to close the wound.

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