Virgin Enchantment by Louisa Trent

Author:Louisa Trent [Trent, Louisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: historical romance, Guilded Age Romance
Publisher: Trent Publishing
Published: 2018-04-15T17:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

A few minutes later, he burst into my pretty bedchamber. Not a forced entry. He had given me no time to lock the door against him.

Why bother, anyway?

Mr. Shield possessed a master key to all tavern and Inn rooms. He carried it on a ring at his waist.

There was no hiding from him, either. I stood in the middle of the bedroom, mopping up the accumulation of betraying moisture between my thighs with a clean linen cloth I had meant to use for bathing later in the hallway WC. Naturally, I looked up at the interruption, and there he stood, glowering at me as I faced him, my legs spread.

I tried to divert him from the true matter at hand with a snippy: “You might have knocked first.”

“Cover up with this after you finish there.” Something diaphanous was tossed at me.

What I caught was a nearly transparent petticoat. Good Lord! A lot that thing would hide. Nevertheless, I finished wiping between my legs, placed the cloth I had been using neatly away in the basin, pulled the ridiculous thing on over my head, and then tied the pretty pink ribbon at the waist.

“And what of the rest of me?” I gestured to my bare chest, heaving with my agitation.

“Afterwards.”

I disliked being kept in the dark, so I pressed. “Afterwards, sir?”

“Your punishment.”

I knew what I had done. Still, I wanted my misbehavior explained to me from his point of view. How else would I know if he and I understood one another? Plus, through his explanation, I would gain useful insights into how he thought, essential considering my guilt and my many previous misrepresentations of something he had said.

“You lied about your identity, Miss Hall. You acted the trollop. You carried on in the most vulgar manner and showed yourself to be an opportunist of the worst variety.”

“What do you mean, sir?” I asked with feigned innocence.

“I mean this: You would have let both of us have you for the sake of an apprenticeship. Somehow you must have caught wind of my friendship with the carver and deliberately sought to ingratiate yourself with me in order to further your own acquaintance with him. That was why you deliberately misled me, why you allowed me to believe you were a whore that first night we met. Figuring you could wrap me around your finger after I took your virginity, you deliberately led me astray, allowed me to think the worst of you. Crafty wench!”

Unbeknown to him, he had just bestowed a tremendous favor on me in the shape of an alibi. His completely plausible motivation had just saved me from going to prison.

And that save could not have had happened at a better time. Just when I had been about to tell him about my guilt, to make a full breast of my stealing, he had handed me the perfect reason for not telling him.

I would have done anything, admitted to anything, to avoid spending my early adulthood behind bars in

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