To Wed a Wild Lord by Sabrina Jeffries

Author:Sabrina Jeffries
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9781451642407
Publisher: Pocket Star
Published: 2011-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Gabe couldn’t believe it. After all he’d endured this week, she had the audacity to spy on him! Wasn’t it enough that she’d happily kissed her cousin while he stood there watching and seething?

And now she was probably in here making sure that he did exactly what her blasted grandfather wanted.

At least she had the good grace to be embarrassed; hot color crawled up her neck to her face. “I . . . I . . .”

“You were spying on me. Again.” He crossed his arms over his chest. “Are you worried that your grandfather won’t get enough work out of me? Or did he ask you to report on my progress? I guess it’s not enough for him that he’s got me working like some damned groom—”

“I wanted to talk to you, that’s all,” she blurted out.

His eyes narrowed. “About what?”

She bit her lower lip. “About Pierce.”

That put the finishing touch on his anger. Now she was going to explain how she and her bloody cousin were perfect for each other, and Gabe could just go to hell. “What about him?”

She smoothed her skirts, refusing to look him in the eye, which confirmed his suspicions. “My cousin and I are not . . . that is . . . we . . . the two of us . . . have never . . .” Taking a deep breath, she started again. “That was the first and only time he has ever kissed me . . . like that. I didn’t want you to get the impression that we had been—”

“Intimate?” he said caustically.

Though her blush deepened, her gaze shot to his. “Yes. Intimate. I thought you should know that no matter what he implied, we don’t have that sort of . . . friendship.”

He stared at her a long moment, trying to take in what she was saying. So she wasn’t dismissing his courtship? She was embarrassed to be accused of being “intimate” with her cousin?

“Are you sure he knows that?” he asked, all at sea.

“Of course!” She released a frustrated breath. “He did it just to annoy you. And it took me so by surprise that I didn’t know what to say when you asked if I truly didn’t mind it.”

As it dawned on him what that meant, his anger ebbed.

“That is Pierce’s biggest fault, you see,” she went on. “He doesn’t know when to leave well enough alone. He seems to delight in—”

“He’d make you a lousy husband,” Gabe broke in.

She didn’t leap to deny it. “What makes you say that?”

He pressed his advantage. “Devonmont takes you for granted.”

She blinked. “That’s absurd.”

“Come now, sweetheart. I see how you take care of things around here. You hold this house together. You’re the one who makes sure they’re all well fed. Without you, that lazy cook of your grandfather’s would give them stale bread and mutton, and they’d take it because he can’t afford a decent cook.”

Her eyes went wide. “I can’t believe you noticed.”

“I’m not blind,” he snapped.

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