The Lady and the Bricklayer by Lisa Torquay

Author:Lisa Torquay [Torquay, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Regency Romance
Publisher: Lisa Torquay
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Those lips that had been haunting him from the first minute he set eyes on her scoffed. “I made it easy for you, didn’t I?”

Easy? The woman was anything but. She’d revealed to be complex, layered, her contradictions as beguiling as her beauty. And she entangled him, involved him in a manner he imagined he’d not be able to find a way out. Ever. And why would he when he craved the exact opposite? Therein lay the problem, the more knots she tied him in, the more he wished to be tied.

“No.” And stared at her full on. “You made it heavenly.” Martin hoped the waves and the wind had carried the gnarled remark away. But when he witnessed the colour on her cheeks, he saw luck didn’t stand on his side.

Her delicate nostrils flared and her head angled back to the sea, concealing her reaction. Before his very eyes, she retreated inside herself. Then closed him out with as much effectiveness as she’d lifted a drawbridge on a castle. When her gaze found him anew, they’d gone cold and remote.

“You’ll understand if I don’t particularly care for your brand of retribution.” Icicles dripped from it though his ears detected a drop of something that called to mind bitterness.

Neither did he care for it, and he was about to say it when voices arose up the path. They belonged to miner women who were bringing their children to play, the small ones already running down and reaching the sand in excited shouts.

Millicent stood up and excused herself to join the group she appeared to have met before. In one of those dark dresses she wore, she greeted the small ones with a sincere little smile before she halted to talk to the women. Martin’s eyes followed her with covetous intent, observing the swan neck, the slim indent of her waist, the elegant curve of her hips, his memory filling the vision with how it felt to touch her. And how hollow it was to know he’d not have a second chance to do it. And not for the first time since she left London, the emotion that invaded him seemed akin to regret.

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