Lois Greiman by Tempting the Wolf

Author:Tempting the Wolf
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

“Aye, we were once as wealthy as…” he paused. “Field mice.”

“Well,” said Lady Trulane, raising her cordial. “Here’s to a reversal of fortunes then.”

“Here here,” said Winters and clicked his fluted crystal against the other’s.

“To loving someone enough to lay down your life for her,” said Lord Hendershire, raising his glass, then gazing into his bride’s gentle eyes.

“To loving someone,” O’Banyon agreed and let his attention flicker momentarily to Antoinette’s.

She lifted her glass to her lips. It bobbled slightly between her fingers. She hated sherry. It burned like banked fire.

But so did the Irishman’s eyes—burned with promise and challenge and the heady suggestion that love could indeed conquer all.

Images raced through her mind. Images of them together, firelight flickering across his skin as they shared secrets and laughter and more.

God’s truth, she thought, feeling panicked, she should not have come. She should have spit in his eye and told him to tell the others whatever he wished.

But that would not have quite fit the image she had tried so desperately to convey for the past twenty some years.

She almost smiled at the thought of their surprised expressions. The elegant Lady Colline, always refined, always controlled. Surely they would think she had lost her mind. It would almost be worth it to see the look on O’Banyon’s face as spittle dripped down his damnably handsome cheeks.

But she would not be so foolish, of course.

Nay, she would remain firmly in control, quieting the tattered little girl in her soul, battling the images in her mind, living a lie.

“To life,” she said and emptied her glass.

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