in4 by The Secret to Seduction

Author:The Secret to Seduction
Language: eng
Format: epub

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Sabrina stood in the doorway and saw a man standing near the chancel. For one disorienting moment—his height, the way he held himself, the color of his hair—he recalled Rhys powerfully, and a strange clutch of hope tightened her chest.

Geoffrey turned and saw her then.

“Sabrina.” He sounded startled; he stared for a moment. “Oh, my apologies. Lady Rawden. ” He bowed deeply.

Sabrina blushed. “Oh, Geoffrey, please don’t. It makes me feel silly. I am always just Sabrina to you.”

He smiled a little at her, and an awkward silence tripped by.

“Geoffrey, I came because…Geoffrey, I’m so sorry for . . .” She paused. What did she intend to say?

For kissing your cousin in the library in front of numerous neighbors and then marrying him?

They approached each other, then; met in the nave, stood a few feet apart.

“No, Sabrina. It’s my fault. I was the one who encouraged you to ingratiate yourself with the earl. I had no idea his lack of scruples ran so very deep, though I should have suspected.”

Sabrina wasn’t inclined to take any of the blame for the change in her circumstances at the moment, though she knew she wasn’t entirely above reproach. She decided not to illuminate matters for Geoffrey any further.

She merely said, “Have you settled in here at the vicarage, then? Is the house comfortable?”

“Yes. It’s comfortable enough. And the surroundings of a vicarage are familiar now, of course. Perhaps I shall never go on my mission, but at least I shan’t be penniless, thanks to Rhys’s largesse.”

There was something else in Geoffrey’s face: a hard sort of resolve and irony, which Sabrina didn’t quite understand and couldn’t quite place, as it seemed somehow unrelated to the disaster at hand. He also didn’t seem heartbroken, and her newly discovered pride chafed a bit at this. She would have liked him to be angry with her, at the very least.

She admitted to herself that she wasn’t precisely heartbroken, either.

Still, it was undeniably good to see Geoffrey. He was familiar; he was of Tinbury; she liked him. He had been her first kiss.

Her life would be considerably different at this moment if only she’d had the sense to allow him to be her only kiss.

“I am glad you will be near, Geoffrey. Perhaps we can be friends again one day, if you can forgive me.”

“There is nothing to forgive, Sabrina.” He smiled faintly, echoing her words when he’d kissed her in the sitting room. “And I hope we will always be friends. I should have known that someone of your nature would be no match for someone with his, should he determine to behave as…well, as he always has.”

And at this, Sabrina felt a startling but increasingly familiar sizzle in her rearing up: How could you possibly know my nature, Geoffrey? I didn’t even know it until I arrived here.

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