Love in the Moon by Barbara Cartland

Author:Barbara Cartland
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781788670340
Publisher: Barbara Cartland Ebooks ltd
Published: 2018-01-26T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5

Canèda came up on deck to sit in a sheltered spot out of the wind.

The sea was not rough, but there was a heavy swell and Madame de Goucourt had retired to her cabin, saying that she had no intention of breaking her leg.

Canèda was relieved because it meant that she could be alone and would not have to evade the questions that she knew Madame, bursting with curiosity, was longing to ask her.

When she had reached the inn after riding away from the Château, she had gone to her bedroom after giving instructions to Ben.

It was impossible for her to sleep and, when she dressed before her maid came to call her, she knew that Madame de Goucourt would have been informed that they were leaving and that by the time they had breakfasted, the carriage and the outriders would be waiting to take them to Bordeaux.

Madame de Goucourt had been astonished at the speed.

“What has happened, Canèda?” she asked when she came to the private room. “Why are we in such a hurry to leave for St. Nazaire?”

“I never intended to stay here for long,” Canèda replied evasively.

Madame de Goucourt was an intelligent woman.

She knew by the expression on Canèda’s face that something had happened, but as it was obvious that she did not wish to speak about it, Madame forced herself to keep silent, even though it was difficult.

Only when they were driving in the spring sunshine back to Angers did she say,

“When I received your note yesterday afternoon, I thought that you were staying the night with friends, but I learnt this morning that you returned very late to the inn.”

“It was more convenient for me to do so,” Canèda replied.

Even as she spoke she could feel again that moment when she had come down to earth from the heights of ecstasy and realised what the Duc intended.

When she had finally climbed into bed, she had lain awake throbbing with the rapture he had evoked in her, even though she tried to deny it.

She had never believed that being kissed could be so ecstatic and so wonderful that she could cease to be herself and become a part of him.

How, she asked herself, could she have surrendered to him so ignominiously and so quickly, without attempting to struggle?

From the very first moment that she had set eyes on him she had known that he was different from other men, not only different in his appearance and behaviour but different in the way he affected her.

None of the men she had met in London who had pursued her, courted her, wooed her and proposed to her had aroused her in any way, except that she found their persistence rather dull when the first interest in having a new admirer had passed.

With the Duc she had been tinglingly aware of him from the moment she rode towards him in the riding school.

She told herself that it was part of her goal and her objective in seeking revenge because of the way his father had treated hers.

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