Say You Love Me(Malory, No. 5) by Johanna Lindsey

Author:Johanna Lindsey
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 0380725711
Published: 2011-09-03T07:00:00+00:00

He was, of course, referring to her uncles James and Tony. He had not been looking forward to that night ever since she'd informed him that her uncles were coming.

She poked him in the chest and warned, "No baiting tonight. You promised you'd behave."

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He gave her a hug and an innocent grin. "I will if they will."

Reggie sighed, anticipating disaster. After all, when did her uncles ever behave?

Anthony pulled Derek aside before they went in to dinner. They had been gathered in the parlor, where Anthony and his brother James had actually been on their best behavior, a rare thing when they were in the same room with Nicholas Eden. But the fact that the children had been present, James holding his little Jack, and Roslynn keeping baby Judith in hand, likely had something to do with it. It was an amazing thing, the change that occurred in Derek's younger uncles when their daughters were around.

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But right then Anthony looked rather serious as he waited

for the others to go on into the dining room before he said to Derek, "D'you think it's a good idea to be bedding Alden's

cousin?"

Derek felt as if he'd just been gut-punched. "What makes you think-?"

Anthony's chuckle cut him off. "Come now, dear boy, I've been there. It's bloody well obvious with the way you look at her."

Derek blushed. And here he'd thought the evening had been progressing splendidly, all things considered.

Unfortunately, he'd been unable to come up with a rea-

sonable excuse not to attend that wouldn't have Reggie badgering him for the next year and making him feel like the lowest cad. He'd even considered accidents and dire health, but knew his cousin well enough to know she'd be suspicious and insist on sending a doctor.

So after talking it over with Percy and Jeremy, and having Percy assure him that he could carry off the lie that Kelsey was his cousin, he'd decided to risk it. It was only family, after all, and only one evening. And even if something went wrong and they were found out, no scandal would actually come of it-just one very furious Jason Malory.

Nicholas had known immediately who Kelsey was when Derek had introduced her to him, and had looked daggers at Derek. But Nick had relaxed soon enough when he saw how Kelsey comported herself. In no way did she appear other than what Reggie thought her to be. She looked like a

lady. She acted like a lady. And informing Reggie right up front that Kelsey would soon be hieing back to the country had put an end to his cousin's plans for The Great Friendship.

But here Derek had actually given their relationship away himself, because he bloody well couldn't help the way he

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looked at her. Yet he didn't want Anthony worried about it, which he apparently was.

So he was forced to fess up, admitting, "Kelsey's not Percy's cousin.

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