Sinfully Delectable by Virginia Taylor

Author:Virginia Taylor
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2019-07-10T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

EDEN HAD FINALLY CONCLUDED HIS business in London after a long process of meetings with various drainage experts, a builder, a stonemason, and his man of business. His drive home had given him time to ponder on the subject of his hoped-for marriage and whether or not he should let Della know he loved her.

On the one hand, he would find out if she had feelings for him, and on the other hand he could confirm that she simply wanted to experiment with him, an objective from which she had never deviated. If he were to believe she hadn’t changed her mind, he should be offended. Should be, yes, for no self-respecting male should allow himself to be used for his body. Unfortunately, his body didn’t cooperate with his brain. He had his mind set on her, and showing any resistance would have been as hard as cracking walnuts with one finger.

The hour being late and deciding not to pull up at the front of the house, he turned the curricle into the carriageway leading to the stables. Two heavy-eyed stable boys rushed out. He let them unbuckle the horses and told them to attend to the curricle in the morning. The stable master, greeting Eden, creased his forehead. He seemed about to say more, but he shook his head and breathed out, indicating to the stable boys to go about their duties as quickly and as quietly as possible.

Eden put aside the concern on the stable master’s ruddy face, and tramped straight into the house without further discussion. He didn’t see a sign of the butler, who would normally greet him, no matter the time of day he arrived after a journey, but of course, the butler didn’t hover around the boots’ area.

His hat and gloves in his hand, he trudged though the kitchen where the dying embers in the oven glowed in the dark. Leaving behind the yeasty odor of the bread dough left to prove overnight, and the soft patter of the kitchen cat, he made his way to the central hall. He heard no sound other than the creak of the floorboards as he trod. Making his way past the library, he noticed that light cracked around the door. Wondering who might be awake at this late hour, he turned the handle and peered in.

A single candle stood on the central table, burnt down to a flicker at the end of the wick. In his comfortable reading chair, curled up on the soft leather, sat the velvet wrapped bundle of Della, her eyes closed. He could have left her there but he couldn’t imagine how she came to be asleep in his library. An opened book sat precariously in her lap. He placed his hat and gloves on the table, and reached out and closed the cover, dropping Household Management for Ladies on the table as well, and stood staring at the woman he loved.

The length of her thick dark eyelashes didn’t disguise the weary black half circles beneath her eyes.

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