I felt as if I’d assaulted her.”Īnnabel caught the butler’s eye. The moment she caught sight of it she started screaming, and she threw something at me as well. So I said hello, and she started looking at me from my toes up. I wandered down there to see whether Ardmore took Racing News, and there she was. “Disturbed? She’s bloody mad, that’s what she is. “Disturbed?” Mayne said, his voice rising now they were in the hallway, surrounded by sympathetic faces. “We know that,” Annabel said, taking his arm and leading him back into the hallway. “If you wouldn’t mind…” He nodded toward the door. He turned to Mayne, still leaning damply against the wall. The hallway was full of people now, spilling in the door. “Goddamn,” Mayne said into the silence that followed. Mac appeared at the door and said, “I’ll fetch Father Armailhac,” and rushed away.įinally Rosy’s voice faltered and stopped. He shook her again, not roughly, but firmly. Ugly, vicious rage.Īnd leaning against the wall, looking utterly limp, was Mayne.Įwan rushed across the room and shook Rosy. She wasn’t screaming in terror she was screaming with rage. The quiet, rather childlike Rosy whom she’d met was replaced by a woman with a white, enraged face, eyes snapping with fury. She looked up at them and Annabel was shocked. She was standing in the middle of the floor, shrilling. She threw open the door, Ewan appearing at her shoulder. And she learns - in the bridal bedchamber and elsewhere - that there is more to marriage than just kissing.And it was.
Yet when she arrives at the Earl's Scottish Estate - contrary to what she had been lead to believe - she finds the hovel to be a castle and her Earl far from impoverished. A moment of passionate madness with Ardmore and the choice is clear - marriage or disgrace.
But by some cruel twist of fate Annabel finds herself in a carriage bound for Scotland (the place she abhors) with the penniless Ardmore - and with all the world thinking they're man and wife! To make matters worse Annabel becomes embroiled in a flirtatious game of words with the Earl - in which the prize is a kiss.and the forfeit. For what would she get if she married him? Why, nothing but a faded Scottish title and a hovel in the highlands. When the dashing Earl of Ardmore tempts Miss Annabel Essex, the most unattainable of the four beautiful Essex sisters, with the promise of a kiss, she resists, just as she snubs his teasing offers of marriage. ✅ Poštovné ZADARMO nad 39€ ✅ Knižná akcia každý mesiac ✅ Bezpečný nákupĪ Regency historical from the New York Times bestselling author Eloisa James, bound to delight Heyer fans.
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