The Valet Who Loved Me by Valerie Bowman

Author:Valerie Bowman [Bowman, Valerie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780989375856
Publisher: June Third Enterprises, LLC
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-One

In addition to the mind-numbing sex he’d shared with Marianne last night, Beau had had a particularly busy night and morning. After Marianne had tiptoed back to her room soon after they’d laid together for the second time in as many days, Beau had sneaked downstairs to speak to Kendall again.

He couldn’t help himself. He had to hear from the horse’s own mouth what had happened in the dining room between Kendall and Miss Wharton last night. Turned out, Miss Wharton had run away from the earl precisely as Marianne had described. And while Kendall had chased after her and attempted to explain himself, Miss Wharton had refused to listen.

Which is precisely what Kendall had done when Beau attempted to provide the man with additional unsolicited advice telling him he had to keep trying. Kendall had finally told him to get out, and suggested that Beau go speak to Miss Wharton directly if he wanted her to change her mind. Beau had thought about it for only a few moments before deciding to do exactly that.

Of course, he’d had to wait until morning dawned and Miss Wharton had gone to Clayton’s library as had become her habit. But Beau had sauntered in and had a brief talk with Miss Wharton, a talk he believed just might have served to change the lady’s extremely stubborn mind.

Beau wasn’t patting himself on the back quite yet, however. It still remained to be seen if Miss Wharton would, in fact, forgive poor Kendall. And the story Beau had told the young woman in an effort to convince her had come at a price.

For the second time in as many days, Beau had been forced to reminiscence about the worst mistake of his life.

“There’s not a day that goes by that regret is not my constant companion,” he’d told Miss Wharton. “Take it from me. The moment you make the decision you’ll regret for eternity can also feel very much like being perfectly right.”

Add that to the fact that there were only five more days left of the house party and he’d yet to uncover the Bidassoa traitor, and Beau was feeling entirely out of sorts. He desperately wanted to know who Marianne really was, but he knew that wasn’t possible while he remained unwilling to tell her the truth about his own identity. It would be both selfish and hypocritical of him to ask her to reveal her secret when he had no intention of revealing his own.

The worst part was, there was a large part of him that didn’t want to know the truth about who she was. What if he found out, and it meant they would be forced to end their affair? That was selfish of him too, but he couldn’t stop himself from wanting the affair to continue. He wanted her whenever he saw her, whenever he smelled her, whenever she was in his presence, and when she was out of it. It was ludicrous, but true.

Even now, as

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