Kidnapping Cordelia (Wicked Sons Book 7) by Emma V Leech

Author:Emma V Leech [Leech, Emma V]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-08-02T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

Dearest Rex,

I hope this letter reaches you before you leave for Scotland. Please don’t come!

Understand that it’s not because I do not wish to see you. It’s only that there is nothing you can do here, and I do not wish for poor Emmeline to endure that horrid journey in her condition. I also know what a trial such a journey would be to you, and there is no need for you to undertake it.

If I decide I shall marry Muir, I will, of course, let you know, but for the moment, we are just taking some of time to get to know each other. I confess I have fallen in love with this place, if not yet with my husband to be.

Wildsyde Castle is beautiful, rugged and remote, set in an untamed landscape that is like nothing I have ever known before. Lady Buchanan has been so wonderfully kind too and has welcomed me like a sister. I have also visited Muir’s property, which is quite different and wonderfully modern, but just as lovely in its own way. I believe I could be happy in this place, Rex. It gives me a deep sense of peace and freedom that I have never experienced elsewhere.

Please rest assured that I will keep you appraised regarding my plans and do not worry about me. For the moment, I am happy and well looked after and there is nothing for you to fret about.

―Excerpt of a letter from The Lady Cordelia Steyning to her brother, The Most Hon’ble Leander Steyning, The Marquess of Wrexham.

30th March 1850, Wildsyde Castle, The Highlands of Scotland.

It was two days before Muir returned to Wildsyde to visit Delia. He was not quite certain why he had stayed away. Though it was a busy time and he’d hardly had a moment to spare, he knew well enough that he would have found a way if he’d really wanted to. Something held him back, and try as he might, he could not put his finger on what it was.

The kiss lingered in his mind, memories of holding Delia in his arms returning to him at inopportune moments. When he’d finally fallen into bed, she’d been there the moment he had closed his eyes, and he relived those private moments all over again. Remembering the feel of her in his arms, her innocent ardour, the honeyed taste of her lips and the fresh, meadowsweet scent of chamomile, his body stirred restlessly, and he’d had the devil’s own job finding sleep, despite his fatigue.

Now, as he handed his horse over to a groom and walked up to the front door, he was aware of a sense of anticipation, of excitement, and wondered why he’d been so foolish not to come before now. He’d offered this woman marriage, and he thought now that it was not such an outrageous notion as he’d first believed, yet how could he be certain if he avoided her?

“Numpty,” he muttered as he let himself in the castle and hollered to the inhabitants that he’d arrived.

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