Stolen Kisses by Suzanne Enoch

Author:Suzanne Enoch [Enoch, Suzanne]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Romance, General, Historical
ISBN: 9780380788132
Google: KfmHpQFSzQEC
Amazon: 0380788136
Publisher: Avon
Published: 1997-01-02T05:00:00+00:00

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Chapter 12

Jack stood in his garden for some time after Lilith Benton disappeared over Lord Tomlin's well-manicured wall.

She had come to warn him. She had risked scandal simply to tell him that his reputation might be in jeopardy—a prospect so trivial it was almost laughable. Except he wasn't laughing. He was wishing. He wished she had stayed with him. He wished his reputation wasn't in such tatters that he didn't dare call on her in a proper manner, and he wished she didn't become upset and embarrassed every time he approached her in public.

"What a damned, bloody mess you've made of it, Black Jack Faraday," he muttered, absently shredding a twig in his fingers. "'You don't know what in damnation to do with her any longer." He scowled, gazing up at the overcast sky and feeling the slight, chill breeze blowing through the maple and elm trees which bordered the north edge of the garden. "And even if you did know, you couldn't do anything about it, because no one—least of all you—would ever believe it. You're an idiot. That's what you are."

Jack threw aside the remains of the skinned twig and strolled up the carriage drive to the front door. Lilith had accused him of having a few stray scraps of honor left to him, and while he couldn't quite call that an insult, it was certainly unsettling. And not just in regard to her.

There were certain things about Wenford's death that had begun troubling him more than they should. In light of Lilith's professed liking for the "real" Jack Faraday, whoever he might be, Jack was suddenly uncertain whether he could continue ignoring the little bits of information he kept acquiring. Wenford's paying of Dolph's debts, the supreme lack of affection between the members of the Remdale clan, and the old duke's dying just in time to prevent his marrying and begetting an heir to supplant Dolph were probably all coincidental. But now Dolph was apparently hinting that the death had been a murder. It was a dangerous course to take, but not an illogical one for a man desperately trying to pretend that he was innocent.

The whole thing was both intriguing and extremely vexing, particularly when he had to plan his own path no carefully. If he weren't behaving as though he were half addle-brained over a proper chit, he could proceed in a much more direct and less conventionally approved manner to forestall Dolph's damned rumors.

Jack paused at the foot of his front steps. He was more than simply acting addle-brained over her. Otherwise, he never would have lost his temper over the idea of her giving an earring to a mad old man. She'd kissed him this morning, and it had been unlike any of the other thousand kisses he'd ever received. Her soft, warm lips, the yearning for him he felt in her, had been so damned arousing, he'd nearly started ripping her clothes off there in his morning room.

"Let me guess." a caustic voice came from behind him.

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