If He's Dangerous by Hannah Howell

Author:Hannah Howell [Howell, Hannah]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Paranormal, General, Supernatural, Paranormal Fiction, Love Stories, Historical Fiction, Historical, Man-Woman Relationships, Regency, Regency Fiction, London (England), England - Social Life and Customs - 18th Century
ISBN: 9781420118780
Publisher: Zebra
Published: 2011-06-01T07:00:00+00:00

Argus stood in the little garden of the gatehouse and stared at the big old oak tree. It would be a perfect place to meet with Lorelei. The problem was, how to get together without putting her at any risk. Cornick and his men were somewhere in the area and had already attacked one of the family. He did not want his need for her to make him act foolishly.

As if he had not already, he thought and kicked at a stone in the path he stood on. He had bedded down with the virgin daughter of a duke, a man he liked and respected. A man who had opened his home to him and was ready to help him stay safe as he hunted down his enemies. If that was not the definition of an utter cad, he did not know what was.

Even disgusted with himself as he suddenly was, Argus found himself staring at the tree again. He could almost see him and Lorelei making love in the shelter of it, its huge trunk protecting them from prying eyes. Argus knew he would continue the affair he had begun tonight because the thought of never touching her again, never tasting her again, was more than he could endure.

“And mayhap you ought to give that fact some hard thought,” he muttered.

“Talking to yourself?”

Argus turned to look at his cousin Iago. “Trying to work out a few problems.”

“The first of which is a fair young maid with hair the color of a fine red wine?”

“I believe that might be my business,” he said, but the repressive tone he put into his voice only made Iago smile. His relatives were not easily intimidated.

“Since we are here on the sufferance of His Grace, her father, you might want to reconsider that opinion.” Iago patted him on the arm and started back into the house. “Just came to tell you that food is on the table. Mayhap a full, contented stomach will help you sort out your twisted thoughts.”

“My thoughts are not twisted,” Argus protested as he followed Iago.

“Nay? Beautiful woman who saves your life, looks at you as if you hung the very moon in the sky, and, I think, shares a passion with you that could set the woods afire, and you stand about and frown as if you have some great weight upon your shoulders.”

“I do. Its name is Cornick.”

“True, but you just try to distract me now. Very well, I will let it go.”

Argus sincerely doubted his cousin would let it go for long. What was it about family that made them think they had the right to stick their long noses into your business? he wondered, scowling at Iago’s broad back. He had the sinking feeling that Iago was but the first one to try, however, and he had not heard the end of it, not by any means.

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