Someday My Prince: Princess #2 by Dodd Christina

Author:Dodd, Christina [Dodd, Christina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Historical, Adult
ISBN: 9780061798269
Amazon: 0061798266
Goodreads: 10331914
Publisher: HarperCollins e-books
Published: 1999-07-01T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

Laurentia didn’t allow—wouldn’t allow—her uncertainty to show as she stepped into sight. Keeping Dulcie’s instructions in mind, she smiled enticingly at Dom. “I knew you would find me.”

“Always.” He grinned back at her, but she would never call that stretching of lips over teeth mirthful. “Never think I won’t.”

He was angry. She had known he would be. She had thought she was ready to face him, but her mouth dried and her smile wavered as he swung out of the saddle.

Rather than move toward her, he walked to his mount’s head, his slight limp in evidence, and she hated the relief that swept through her. Calming the tremble in her lips, she acted as if he were an invited guest and she a proper hostess. “There are no servants here. We have to care for our own horses.”

“Of course.” His gaze rested on the pistol still clasped in her hand. “Still not stupid, I see.”

“Never.” She hoped.

Grasping the leading rein, he looked again at the cottage. “Where is here?”

“Here is my personal refuge.” She walked right past Dom, acting as if she were confident he would not grab her. He didn’t, but he watched her, his gaze oppressive with heat and laden with the promise of retribution. “Papa had it built for my mother. After my . . . after Beaumont died, he thought I might need a place to go where I could have privacy.” Replacing the pistol in the saddlebag, she untied Sterling and led him toward the stable.

Dom followed. “Why would a princess want privacy?”

She hesitated, but it was too soon to tell him all the truth. She had learned discretion at a hard school. Lightly she said, “Here I can scratch wherever it itches.”

“Ah, yes.” Unwilling amusement shaded his voice. “That evening on the terrace, I seem to remember a fair amount of envy that men could scratch as they pleased.”

“Oh.” Did he have to remind her of how inane she had been two days ago? “I did say that.”

“You said quite a lot for such a reticent princess as you have proved to be.”

His voice sounded close, and she turned to find him moving past her, toward the closed stable. He lifted the bar from its brackets and laid it aside, then swung the doors wide. Musty air rushed out, but immediately Laurentia moved to guide Sterling inside; the shadows in the dim stable would protect her from Dom’s incisive gaze.

As she passed him, he caught her fingers in his, and her gaze flew to his. “Is it only in the darkness you speak your heart?”

“Yes.” Her throat seemed suddenly too small, constricted by alarm, and she cleared it, all the while thinking, He’s holding my hand. And then, as his thumb stoked the remarkably sensitive center of her palm, He’s caressing me. “Yes, it must be the dark.”

Bending from the waist, he placed his lips on the backs of her fingers. Just placed his lips there for one long moment. It wasn’t a kiss; she’d had her hand kissed many times.

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