The Legend of Nimway Hall: 1818 - Isabel by Suzanne Enoch

Author:Suzanne Enoch
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: 0
Published: 2018-03-28T18:00:00+00:00

Adam stifled a yawn as he and Orion, Isabel and Fiore behind them, trotted down the path that led into Balesboro Wood and the loggers’ hut within. Yes, he was the one who’d decided they should begin at seven o’clock, but he hadn’t anticipated lying, tossing, standing, and pacing awake all night.

Isabel had bloody well surprised him yesterday. At best he’d thought she might realize his idiocy for the mad slip of propriety it had been, and that she would ask him to stay on for a few days while she found a replacement. He would have agreed to that.

Instead, she’d set aside her own pride twice over and asked for his help. She hadn’t suggested that he work for free in exchange for her not telling everyone far and wide that he’d mauled her like some mannerless beast. She hadn’t asked for a promise of his silence about her ignorance of her duties, despite the damage he could do with just a few words to her tenants.

All of that made Isabel de Rossi either the worst negotiator in history, or a genuinely good-hearted young lady who wanted to live up to the responsibilities she’d voluntarily assumed. And he already knew which she was, because he’d realized that about her days ago.

And none of that, including his gratitude at being offered a second chance, made him regret kissing her. Yes, it had been ham-fisted, and yes, he should have asked – and waited for – her permission. The kiss itself, though, he didn’t regret. He would never regret it.

She would probably spin the moonstone orb until it pointed at Alton, until she could claim that magic decreed she should marry a handsome viscount, of all people. But he didn’t believe in magic. He believed in that kiss. And he had four months now to convince her that the only real magic in the world lay in the way he’d felt – and the way he was willing to wager she’d felt – in that moment.

Because whether she would ever admit it or not, the real reason she wanted to pretend the kiss had never happened, and the reason he was still here today, was because she’d kissed him back.

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