A Warriner To Rescue Her (Wild Warriners 2) by Virginia Heath

Author:Virginia Heath
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Harlequin Historical
Published: 2017-07-14T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Well, he had made a spectacular hash out of that. Even Satan was staring at him incredulously.

Could you have been more boorish or offensive, you stupid human? You ravished the poor girl, failed to apologise for groping her and made it sound as if you were teaching her a lesson for having the audacity to be delightful enough to inspire men to kiss her. What a thoroughly charming creature you are!

To add insult to injury, Jamie could now apparently hear his horse speak! Or maybe it was his own disgusted voice in his head? Either way, he couldn’t argue with the sentiment.

What had started as the perfectly pleasant afternoon he had longed for had deteriorated rapidly into one of the worst days of his life, thanks entirely to his legendary quick temper and a rampant case of jealous lust. The only day he could remember which had turned out to be worse was the one in which he had been shot four times and almost died from the injuries—although as he watched her lovely bottom disappear in the distance, that cute freckled nose defiantly poking up in the air in outrage at being treated so abominably, he would have swapped the shame he currently felt for those destructive, life-changing bullets in a heartbeat.

If there had been a convenient brick wall close by, he would cheerfully smash his stupid head against it. Maybe he would go and find one, do it anyway and be damned. He doubted it would hurt more than his heart did. Who knew it was possible to grievously insult a woman in so many different ways in such a short space of time.

Jamie began to snatch up his things in utter disgust at his own ham-fisted behaviour. Seeing the remnants of the lovely picnic she had prepared still strewn across the grass only served to further sour his mood. The poor girl had departed in such a hurry she had left it all behind. Even her leather-bound journal, the one in which she wrote her precious stories, sat discarded on the tablecloth. He picked it up and began to flick through it. The moment he saw the name Captain Galahad, a fresh wave of shame washed over him, his fingers tracing the flamboyant, sloping handwriting lovingly. Her words. Words which summed her up perfectly. Cheerful, funny, vivid. Generous of spirit. Thoughtful. And he had behaved with such thoughtlessness he wouldn’t blame her if she never ever wanted to see him again.

He rode home listlessly and was grateful when he collided with nobody when he arrived. The drawing room was empty and silent, so for ages he sat miserably and stared out of the window. It went without saying he owed her the most enormous, grovelling apology it was possible to give, no matter how humbling or mortifying it was likely to be. He needed to explain why he had kissed her in the first place—or a watered-down version of why he had kissed her. One which

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