When Lady Innocent Met Dr. Scandalous (The May Flowers Book 5) by Merry Farmer

Author:Merry Farmer [Farmer, Merry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-04-09T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Linus’s whole body ached, but not from the work he’d been doing for the last day. The ache of muscles he hadn’t used in a while was a familiar sort of pain, but the disquiet in his soul was something entirely new and, admittedly, frightening.

He clattered the pans he and Natalia had used to make breakfast in the small washbasin that served as a sink beside the stove, cleaning up what Natalia wouldn’t. Or perhaps couldn’t. As angry as he was, a quiet voice in the back of his mind continued to whisper to him that the life she had been raised to live truly was as different as could be from the life he’d always envisioned for himself.

Although, how difficult could it be for a woman of Natalia’s intellect and ingenuity to learn how to manage a household? She was smarter than half the men he’d gone to medical school with. Cooking and keeping a house were well within her capabilities. He simply didn’t understand why she would reject the notion of creating a happy, settled, cozy home life for the two of them.

And now she was saying that she didn’t want to marry him at all? He could only shake his head at the thought.

Still, as he finished cleaning up after breakfast and then moved on to work on the laundry she’d abandoned, he tried to see things as rationally as he could. He believed that people could change, but he had to admit that change didn’t happen overnight. It was the same with Fergus. He had come so far since the attack that had necessitated him hiring Linus as a personal physician, but that progress had been slow. Fergus would inevitably make more progress, though Linus didn’t think he would ever be the man he was again, but that progress would be slow as well. Natalia’s transformation from coddled daughter of the nobility to proud and strong wife, a woman able to stand on her own two feet, would happen slowly as well.

He finished scrubbing the sheets floating in the washtub and wrung them out clumsily, dripping water all over the floor of the cottage, before carrying them outside to the clothesline he’d spotted strung between the cottage and the lighthouse. He intended to hang the sheets and then go in search of Natalia to see if she was finished with her mood, but he spotted her the second he stepped through the door. She was down by the dock, waving her arms at a small vessel steaming its way toward the island.

“Who is that?” he called out, carrying the sheets on to the clothesline and carelessly hanging them to dry.

Natalia glanced over her shoulder at him, her frown still in place. “We’ll find out soon enough,” she said before turning back to the boat.

Linus finished with the sheets, then walked down to the dock to join her. Natalia stiffened as he reached her side. He peeked sideways at her, glanced out at the approaching steamboat,

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