To Tempt a Saint by Kate Moore

Author:Kate Moore
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: American Light Romantic Fiction, Regency novels, Regency fiction, Romance - Historical, Fiction, Romance, Romance: Historical, Historical, American Historical Fiction, Fiction - Romance, General, Love stories
ISBN: 9780425233061
Publisher: Berkley Publishing
Published: 2010-01-05T07:48:22.081000+00:00

Chapter Eleven

IN the morning Xander took his wife to the bank. It seemed the best way to turn her thoughts from seduction. On the way he reminded his squawking conscience that his plan of marrying Cleo Spencer had a symmetry that was fair and just—as long as he stayed out of her bed. Their bargain meant each got the money to save a brother. She would save hers from March, and he would release Kit from whatever monstrous thing in London’s darkest depths had got hold of him.

March’s legal maneuvers would ultimately free them both, and meanwhile Norwood would tie March up in the courts long enough for Xander, with furious effort, to get the gasworks going, get his charters and permits, and get the support of the Metropolitan Works Group. He had no doubt he could repay any of the trust money he spent from gas company profits over the years. And once he and Cleo Spencer parted, he believed Norwood could help her break the clause in her trust that left her under March’s control.

Cleo had to admit that entering Evershot’s bank on Xander Jones’s arm was an entirely different experience from entering alone in her old cloak. This morning he had given her fur-trimmed silk to wear. She could ask for and receive her money in any amount she chose. Meese couldn’t touch her.

But the moment was not as satisfying as she had expected it to be. It was her husband’s power that inspired Meese’s deferential bow, not her own. Power in her own person eluded her. She was the one who had contributed piles of lovely money to their bargain, but Xander Jones didn’t feel the least bit like kneeling before her or giving in to her idea of how to defeat her uncle.

Last night she’d endured the humiliation of fighting for his attentions when, obviously, he was a man who found his pleasures elsewhere. To be discovered in that moment by her mocking brother-in-law had reduced her to tears. Her own response puzzled her. It was no part of her plan to desire her husband, but she had to admit that his kiss melted her brain. She had barely retained enough wit to press her knife against his belly when he pulled back from their embrace. Even then she hadn’t got it right. And it hadn’t helped her clarity of mind to find herself staring at such an intriguing bit of male flesh. There were definitely gaps in Miss Hester Britt’s explanation of sexual congress.

When he leaned into the knife, that moment, well, the whole kiss, if she were brutally honest with herself, said how confident he was of his power. She had not been as forceful as she’d intended to be, and once again he’d disappeared into his other life in which she had no part.

But once she had her own money in her hands, she was sure she would not care where he went or with whom he spent his nights.

Men of business

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