Lover Be Mine (Legendary Lovers 2) - Page 5

Her eyebrows shot up. “This grows more intriguing by the moment.”

Jack made a face. “I don’t consider it ‘intriguing’ that she thinks you and I might suit.”

She stared at him. “Suit—as in matrimony? Surely she is jesting.”

“If you think that, you don’t know Kate,” he said dryly.

“Then she is daft.”

“My sentiments exactly. Her premise is utterly demented.”

“So you came to inspect me this evening?”

“You could put it that way.”

“What role did Lady Skye play in your decision?”

Jack answered that question with even less enthusiasm. “I was heading to an early-morning curricle race recently when she planted herself in my vehicle and commandeered the reins. Short of removing her bodily or forfeiting the race, I had no choice but to promise to investigate you.”

A soft spurt of laughter escaped Miss Fortin. “Oh, no, you would not want to miss a race,” she murmured. “Not a premiere member of the Four-in-Hand Club who is infamous for his neck-or-nothing carriage races.”

The chit was teasing him, if not outright laughing at him, he decided. She continued before he could respond in kind. “Lady Skye is known to be exceptionally persuasive, but you surprise me, Lord Jack, allowing your cousin and your sister to browbeat you.”

“I was hardly browbeaten.”

“No? You barged your way into a private ball uninvited and stalked me here to my aunt’s library because you wouldn’t stand up to them.”

“You do have a point,” he said in a wry drawl. “It is distinctly lowering. No self-respecting chap allows his female relatives to orchestrate his amorous affairs.”

Her musical laughter rippled again, a sound so infectious that Jack chuckled himself. “I admit, you are not what I expected, Miss Fortin.”

“What did you expect?”

“To be frank? A jellyfish with no spine.”

“Why?”

“Because you are letting yourself be browbeaten into an unwanted marriage to Dunmore.”

“Simply because I choose to honor my parents’ wishes, you think I have no spine?”

“You are set on marrying the duke, are you not? You are far too willing to do as your parents tell you.”

She didn’t seem offended by his critique of her, however. Instead, she just smiled that serene, faintly enigmatic smile of hers. “How can you make such judgments when you know very little about me?”

He couldn’t dispute her on that question. And strangely he didn’t want to. In truth, he wanted to know Sophie Fortin a great deal better.

“Perhaps you aren’t such a milksop after all,” he conceded.

Her eyes gleamed with humor. “I suppose I should thank you for the backhanded compliment.”

Such intelligent eyes, such warmth in them, Jack thought.

“I confess,” she admitted, “you are not what I expected either. At least you make a habit of appearing in unexpected places.”

“What places?”

“Besides my aunt’s masquerade tonight? The Arundel Home for Unwed Mothers, for one.”

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