Lord Ravenscar's Inconvenient Betrothal by Lara Temple

Author:Lara Temple
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-12-06T18:34:22+00:00

Chapter Ten

Lily stared out the library window at the scrubbed blue skies of a perfect autumn morning. The only reminder of the storm was the dance of wind in the trees. At least this meant Alan wouldn’t be soaked to the skin if he walked to Keynsham. She should be grateful, but she wasn’t. Why couldn’t the roads and fields be flooded, or better yet, an early snowstorm descend upon them and give them one more day...?

She didn’t want this time with him to end. She wanted to wrap herself around him, keep him here with her. These feelings were unstoppable, unbearable, and she didn’t know what to do. She knew it wasn’t the same for him. Otherwise he could not have been in control so quickly after she had all but melted into a puddle at his feet. He wanted to bed her, but he had probably wanted to bed dozens of women and it had meant nothing in the end. For her this was becoming everything.

The squeal was so high-pitched her mind immediately rejected the possibility that this was a trick of the wind. She hurried into the hallway in time to see a ginger streak coming down the stairs, Grim in pursuit. The ginger tabby paid no attention to Lily, its tail high and just curved at the tip as it skidded into the library, its solid body thumping against the doorway. Grim wasn’t as swift, but he was large and his lean body drank up the distance in pursuit. His size was an impediment, though, and she spread her legs and planted herself in the library door.

‘That’s enough, you two!’

Grim’s paws scrabbled on the wooden hallway floor as he curved to avoid collision. Behind her she could see the tabby had jumped on to the bookcase in the middle of the room, flanked by the suits of armour and glaring at Lily as if she had spoilt his fun.

Grim growled at the tabby and looked up at Lily, clearly waiting for permission to continue.

Curious, Lily stood back and Grim gathered his old body and proceeded according to plan.

This time only one suit of armour suffered damage. Grim’s leap for the tabby did set the bookcase rocking, but the tabby leapt, landing gracefully on the helmet until it toppled to the ground, taking one of the shoulder plates with it in a muted clang. The tabby skidded past Lily’s legs again, but Grim stood there, panting and content, clearly waiting to be adulated. Lily relented and scratched his head.

‘I see this is a habit. Perhaps I should be grateful you two haven’t wreaked worse damage.’

‘So you have identified the vandals?’

Alan stood in the doorway, surveying the beheaded knight, and Grim padded over to him, his nails clicking on the wood and his filmy eyes glistening with sheepish pride. ‘I found Grim’s point of infiltration. It was a door to the garden from one of the small back parlours in the north wing. The catch is faulty.’

He looked much as he had when he arrived two days ago—handsome, forbidding, tense.

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