The Lady Most Willing ... by Eloisa James & Julia Quinn & Connie Brockway
Author:Eloisa James & Julia Quinn & Connie Brockway [James, Eloisa & Quinn, Julia & Brockway, Connie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-12-31T22:00:00+00:00
Chapter 14
Taran was not employing the great hall for dining; a storm this fierce sneaked in through windows and took over the larger rooms. The wind howled as it rounded the corners, scouring under the doors, keeping the air frigid and moving.
Instead, supper was to be served in the antechamber where theyâd taken all their meals. It was small and cheery; a boy had been assigned to keep a fire burning there all day. Its small mullioned windows were so crusted with snow and ice that the wind couldnât even make them rattle.
Byron changed into an evening coat and returned downstairs far faster than his usual wont. He walked over to one window and stared at the snowdrift blocking any view of the storm. He had been making an annual winter trek to Finovair for a decade or more, and he could not remember seeing the snow piled quite so high in the courtyard before.
Fiona was so different from Opal. She didnât look away from him; she laughed straight to his face. She never seemed to be at a loss for words. She just said what she was thinking. He had a tremendous feeling of rightness, even thinking of the way her eyes shone with mischief.
She wouldnât lie to him. She would mock him, and argue with him, and probably infuriate him, but she would never lie to him.
And she had told him about Marillaâs theft of her motherâs portrait. Perhaps if Opal and he had talked, really talked, she would have told him that she didnât care to marry him. She wouldnât have had to stage that scene with the balding dancing master.
If, instead, it had been Fiona who had decided she didnât care to marry him, she would tell him face-to-face. Letâs say they were betrothedâa funny shot of heat came under his breastbone at the notion. He would like to put a ring on her finger. A ring that would tell other men that everything about herâfrom her sweet little nose, to those curved hips, to the perplexed look in her gorgeous eyesâit was all his.
Just hypothetically, if he were betrothed to Fiona, and she decided to throw him over, she wouldnât do it through a dramatic scene. She would probably glare at him, and then she would tell him that he was a stupid, jealous . . .
Jealous?
He had never been jealous. Marriage wasnât about jealousy. It was about respect and promises. But then he thought for a moment and realized that a seething cauldron lit in his chest at the very idea of a dancing master approaching Fiona.
This train of thought was insanity.
He leaned his forehead against the icy window, just to see whether he was dreaming. The glass was just as cold to his forehead as to his fingertips. A feeling of profound calm cut through with elation swept through him. He would do it: he would marry Fiona Chisholm, and have a bespectacled, honest, beautiful countess. She would probably be a good mother, but honestly, he didnât give a damn.
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