Cloud Castle by Sara Seale

Author:Sara Seale [Seale, Sara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Harlequin Romance 1967
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Well, really! Judy thought, and nearly spoke aloud. How could she have the effrontery to make such a remark in the presence of someone who had witnessed the evening’s capers!

“Did you, Marcia?” he said indulgently, and his expression was inquiring and, uncharacteristically, a little shy as he looked down at her. She stood beside him, a hand tucked through his arm, the long velvet housecoat which she wore as a dressing-gown falling in graceful folds to her feet. Her dark hair was loose about her neck, and her fine eyes were brilliant with the knowledge of her own attractions. Judy grinned as she thought of her own unbecoming but useful red garment which clashed with her hair, and silently saluted Marcia for the appositeness of her effects

“It was dull, Judy, so take that smirk off your face,” Marcia said, mistaking the grin. “Being gay with a bunch of hearty undergraduates can be exhausting.”

“Very,” Raff remarked a little dryly. “But you seemed to be enjoying their attentions when last I saw you.”

“Perhaps I was working for an end,” she said, fluttering her long lashes at him, and his smile was both quizzical and a little puzzled.

“Were you, Marcia? I’m not really a jealous person, you know.”

“You’re a most infuriating one! Anyway, it worked, and I, for one, don’t believe that jealousy had nothing to do with it.”

They were quite exasperating, Judy thought in their ability to behave as if she were not present, but even as the thought crossed her mind, Marcia turned to her and said;

“Do you believe Raff’s boast, darling? You would claim, I suppose, that you’re above rousing jealousy in anyone, though I bet my little brother was giving you a lesson or two out there on the terrace.”

“Your brother and I were simply talking,” Judy said stiffly, aware that she was foolish to try to explain as she saw Raff’s eyebrows lift in a sceptical quirk and knew that the silhouette she and Noel had presented to him must have told quite a different story.

“He was biting my ear,” she said, and knew, even as she spoke, what a ridiculous statement it must sound.

Raff said nothing, but Marcia gave a low gurgle of amusement “And what was that a lesson for?” she asked.

“Nothing. Anyway, does it matter?” Judy looked at Raff as she spoke, but it was Marcia who answered.

“Not in the least,” she said. “Now, Judy, do show a grain of tact and go to bed. I want to talk to Raff.”

Judy scrambled to her feet at once, aware that she must have been in the way of both of them for some time. Raff bade her a grave goodnight, and as the study door closed behind her she heard Marcia say on a note of seductive invitation:

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