The Lightkeeper's Bride by Colleen Coble

Author:Colleen Coble [Coble, Colleen]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: cookie429, Kat, Extratorrents
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc.
Published: 2010-09-12T14:00:00+00:00

Katie’s face felt tight and dry. She stared at the apparition in the mirror. A red-faced horror stared back at her. If her mother could see her now, she’d be tsking and shaking her head as she exclaimed about the fact that Katie had gone out without a hat or parasol. Whatever had she been thinking yesterday? Bart was coming to take her to lunch at his home this morning. She could only imagine what his parents would think when they saw her.

She touched her red, roughened cheeks. There was no way to hide the damage. She finished her hair, but no adjusting of her hat covered the sunburn on her face. Sighing, she removed her glasses and tucked them away, then closed the bedroom door behind her and proceeded down the steps. Bart would be here any moment. She should have telephoned him this morning and canceled the plans. When she reached the foyer, Will was exiting the parlor with Jennie in his arms. He was still pale and his head was bandaged.

The baby smiled and reached for her. Her small teeth gleamed in her smile. Katie took the baby then had to rescue a feather the child grabbed from her hat. “Has she eaten lunch?”

“I fed her.” His gaze probed under her hat at her sunburn. “Does it hurt?”

“A little.” She nuzzled the baby’s soft cheek. “How are you feeling?”

“I’ll live.” He paused and studied her face as she adjusted her hat to shade it better. “You could wear your glasses. They would hide part of your face.” His voice was full of amusement.

“I think not,” she said.

“You look quite fetching in them. Rather intelligent. I like intelligence in a woman.”

Her hot face flamed still hotter. Was he mocking her? She couldn’t tell if he was serious or not. She heard steps on the front porch then saw Bart’s familiar bowler through the door window. “I must go.”

She handed the baby to him and turned toward the door, but not so fast that she missed the frown that gathered in his forehead. There was a skip in her pulse. He couldn’t be jealous, could he? A smile lit her face when she opened the door. The delight faded when she saw Bart’s eyes widen at his first glimpse of her.

“Is that a sunburn?” he asked.

She opened the door and stepped out onto the porch to escape Will’s amusement. “It is, indeed. I got a little too much sun yesterday.”

He couldn’t seem to look away from her face. “You lost your chapeau?”

She turned her face away and took his arm. “I went boating yesterday.”

“Ah, the wind blew it off.” He picked up her gloved hand and patted it. “Most unfortunate.”

Some perverse impulse made her tell him the truth. “Not really. I quite forgot to take it.”

He stumbled on the grass. “It is of no matter. You look lovely.”

His gallant words made her wince. A woman never forgot her hat.

It just wasn’t done. He was bound to wonder what could have caused her to behave in such an unseemly way.

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