The Belligerent Miss Boynton by Kasey Michaels

Author:Kasey Michaels
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: historical romance, regency romance, bargain, funny romance, bestselling, romance classic
Publisher: Kasey Michaels

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A mere hour past dawn a loud yell rang through the townhouse in Half Moon Street, rising up from the entrance hall. “Ho, ho! Time to be up and off, friend Jared. What’s keeping you, sleepyhead? We have a tale for you.”

“Quiet, you idiots! You’ll wake my aunt!” Jared returned loudly as he leaned over the stair rail.

Lady Chezwick appeared in her doorway, her lace–trimmed nightcap drooping down low over one eye. “Not really, Nephew,” she said, yawning. “You, however, have succeeded most admirably where they failed. What’s going on?”

Jared grinned at the old woman. “My apologizes, Aggie. Go back to your bed. It’s only Bo and Kevin, ready to leave for the country. They must have stayed up all night and come here with the dawn, drat them. I’ll see you in a week, Aunt—and again, thank you for coming to me, for your intentions were of the best.” He dropped her a quick kiss that landed somewhere in the vicinity of her left ear, and loped off down the stairs.

“Give Amanda a kiss for me, Jared,” she called down to him, and returned to the comfort of her bed, intending not to leave it again until at least noon.

Jared entered the study and called out, “Let’s be off, gentlemen—” then stopped in his tracks to exclaim, “Good Lord, what have you two been up to? Fighting again, Bo? Aren’t you getting a little long in the tooth for that sort of thing?” He turned to face the lanky figure Kevin Rawlings had draped negligently over a chair, one booted foot swinging in mid-air. “And you, you reprobate, you’ll have a bruise on that cheek for certain. What happened?”

“I refuse to answer any questions until I have a glass in my hand.”

Jared hastened to comply with Kevin’s request, pouring a goodly amount of wine into two glasses. Then, deciding he might need it, he poured a third for himself.

“Ah! Now, dear friend, that’s more the thing,” Kevin drawled after disposing of half of the liquid in a single swallow. “Bo, my boon companion, my chin aches abominably. You tell our dear Jared how we championed his lady.”

“True, true. Knights of old, Galahad. Smashing go! No swordplay though. Planted a facer. Kevin, too. Worst to them. Cheers!” Bo lifted his glass and drank deeply, then held the cool tumbler to his rapidly coloring eye.

Bo’s conversation was difficult to follow at the best of times, but Jared, in his agitation, couldn’t make heads or tails of a single word. “Bo, you addlepated buffoon, speak plainly. What are you talking about?’

“Take offense, Jared. Quite clear I thought. Freddie and Denton at White House. Talked about your lady. Couldn’t have that, could we? Waited outside, Kevin and I. Smashing go. Bad one, Freddie. Told you so. No left hand, either.”

“Kevin?” Jared pleaded, turning to appeal to his friend.

“Very well, I see I have to explain, since you care little for my aching jaw.” He crossed the room to refill his glass. “Bo told you we were at the White House,” he said, then turned a searching eye toward Bo.

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