Earls Rush In by Jennifer Haymore

Author:Jennifer Haymore
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2023-04-17T18:04:40+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

As soon as they rolled out of the village, Finn turned to Charlotte. “I intend to inform the Navarros of my true identity.”

She tilted her head, frowning. “Why?”

“Mariano and I are thinking about engaging in a business endeavor together. If I do that, I cannot begin working with him under false pretenses. I trust him. He and his wife are honest and won’t spread gossip.”

“I trust them, too.” She laughed softly. “Miranda already knew that we weren’t married, and I’d wager that’s the more dangerous secret, anyway.”

He gaped at her. “How did she know?” He’d thought they were convincing. Lord, there were many moments even he had felt convinced.

She shrugged. “Intuition? She’s observant.”

What else had the woman observed? Finn fidgeted at the thought. “I’ll write to Mariano tonight, then.”

“Honesty is always best, isn’t it?”

His mouth suddenly dry, Finn looked away. “It is.”

But he hadn’t been completely honest with Charlotte, had he?

Traveling over the storm-battered roads was slow, but Finn had expected that. Occasionally they came across wet snowdrifts that went up to his and John’s knees, and they had to pause to shovel through. But slow as it was, they made progress far faster than they had the evening of the blizzard.

In truth, Finn looked forward to shoveling until his arms felt like jelly, because it gave him a respite from having to sit beside Charlotte. Even as he struggled with the fact that he’d continued to withhold information from her when she’d asked for it over and over and he’d only given half-truths, their nearness in the carriage sent yearning for her buzzing through him like a charge under his skin. The only way to soothe it was to touch her. To make her his.

Something he could never do.

In contrast to the trip out of London, their return was comfortable—as comfortable as it could be for a man who wanted the woman beside him more than he’d wanted anything in his life. They discussed additional ideas for the Crooked Tower Inn. They talked of how much she’d miss Chapman House, her childhood home, and her hopes to stay near Surrey, which, they both agreed, was the best county in England.

“I haven’t been far north,” she told him, “but there’s no denying that Surrey is in an ideal location given its proximity to London. And it is, by all accounts, one of the most beautiful areas in the entire country.”

“Beautiful,” he agreed, looking at her lips. Soft and full, rosebud pink. Lips he could kiss for eternity and be the happiest man alive.

He looked away. She doesn’t know what happened to Chris. And if she did, she’d never forgive you.

Still…should he tell her some of it? Most of it, even? The parts that would drive in the knowledge of exactly how dangerous Bagshaw was to her?

They ate their luncheon, sharing bites of cold chicken, bread, cheese, currant cakes, and stewed pears. All of it uncommonly delicious, as the food prepared in Mrs. Navarro’s kitchen always seemed to be.

When they finished eating, Charlotte laid her head on his shoulder and dozed as the carriage rattled on.

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