Forgotten Fiancée (London Ladies Book 3) by Jillian Eaton

Author:Jillian Eaton [Eaton, Jillian]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2020-08-26T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Stricken to his very soul, Miles watched the woman he loved more than life itself walk away from him once again. He silently willed her to stop. To turn her head. To give him some indication, no matter how small, that a flicker of hope remained between them.

When he heard a door open and quietly close his heart sank like a stone inside of his chest.

This was it, then. Her final decision. Dianna did not want him, and he would be damned if he begged more than he already had. She’d made her choice… and now they would both be forced to live with the consequences.

Dawn painted the sky in vivid strokes of pink and yellow by the time he returned to Winfield, having forsaken the road for a moonlit ride through field and forest. Carrying the sharp, leafy scent of autumn into the house with him, he began to wearily climb the stairs only to stop short as a dash of movement caught the corner of his eye.

“Harper?” he said incredulously, turning to find his sister curled in one of the parlor’s drawing room chairs. “What are you doing up so early?”

Still dressed in a white nightgown with her long hair confined in a single dark braid and a thick book open on her lap, Harper glanced up at the sound of her name. “The moon was too bright,” she said. “I could not sleep.”

“That makes two of us.” Descending the stairs Miles went into the parlor and sat across from his sister, ignoring her scowl of annoyance. “How long have you been awake?” he queried, noting the two silver candlesticks at her feet, both burned down to the quick.

“What concern is it of yours?” Already bristling for a fight, Harper set the book she’d been reading aside and hunched forward, drawing her knees up to her chest. “I am not doing anything wrong. I haven’t broken any rules.”

Glancing down, Miles saw her bare toes peeking out beneath the hem of her nightgown, reminding him that even though Harper thought herself a woman full grown, she was still very much a little girl, lost and confused in a world where she’d been forced to learn the bitter taste of abandonment far too young. “No one said you had.”

“Then what are you doing here? What do you want?” she demanded, unwittingly repeating the same questions Dianna had asked him three hours prior.

“I want to talk to my favorite sister.” Leaning back in his chair, he crossed his legs at the knee, making himself comfortable. Having been scorned by Dianna made him only the more determined to earn Harper’s forgiveness. He supposed it was to his favor that she couldn’t run from him, for given the choice he’d no doubt she would do precisely that. “Is that so much to ask?”

“I am your only sister,” she said sullenly. “And I do not wish to talk with you.”

Finding his patience for obstinate females had been worn past the breaking point, Miles gritted his teeth and said, “That is too damn bad, because I have a lot to talk about.

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