Say You Love Me

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Author: Johanna Lindsey
Tags: Fiction, General, Romance, Historical
force herself to look away to examine the third man standing in front of her. If she hadn’t glanced at that blue-eyed young man first, she could have honestly said she’d never seen a man as handsome as this one. He had thick blond hair in an unruly, fly-away style. His eyes were hazel—no, green, definitely green—and the look in them was a bit disturbing, though she couldn’t say why exactly. He was shorter than the other two, though not by much, and certainly still taller than her by half a foot or more.
    And then he smiled, and Kelsey’s stomach fluttered—for the first time in her life. What a strange feeling. And the room had suddenly become too warm. She wished she had a fan, but she hadn’t thought to pack one, hadn’t thought to need one in the heart of winter.
    “Might as well set that down…?” he said to her, glancing at her valise. “And do hurry up, Jeremy, and do whatever fetching you intend to do.”
    “Gad, forgot all about the chit he came here for,” the older of the three said. “Yes, do hurry it up, Malory. Interesting as this evening has been thus far, it still ain’t over.”
    “Damn me, forgot about Flo m’self,” Jeremy admitted with a sheepish grin. “Won’t take me long to fetch her, though—if I can find her.”

    Kelsey watched the youngest of the threesome saunter out of the room. So she’d got her wish after all. He’d just been called Malory, and the man who’d paid such an exorbitant price for the privilege of having her for his mistress had been a Lord Malory. So where was the relief she’d been positive she would feel?
    “Kelsey Langton,” she said, having finally realized, long after the fact, that the blond man had been asking her name when he’d suggested she set her valise down.
    Now she blushed, however, to have blurted it out like that. And she still hadn’t set down the valise, hadn’t even realized she was still holding it, until that same blond man stepped forward and took it out of her hand.
    “My name’s Derek, and the pleasure is mine, Kelsey, you may be sure,” he said to her. “But we’ll have a bit of a wait while the youngun attends to the business that brought us here. So perhaps you’d like to sit down?” And he indicated one of the chairs next to Lonny’s desk.
    Not only handsome but kind. Imagine that. Yet still disturbing in some way. Her heart had fair tripped over when he’d come so close and his fingers had touched hers as he took the valise from her to set it aside. She had no idea what it was about him that was causing these strange reactions in her, but she was suddenly very glad he wasn’t the one she’d be going home with.
    She’d have enough to deal with just in becoming a mistress at the end of the day, the thought of which she had put in the far back of her mind or she never would have survived up to now. She didn’t need any extra worries. And at least with young Jeremy, she imagined the worst problem she’d have would be to keep from staring at him like a ninny. But that, undoubtedly, was something that particular young man with his mesmerizing looks was very used to.
    “Knew an earl over Kettering way by the name of Langton,” the other man said suddenly. “Nice enough chap, though ended bad, I hear. ’Course, you wouldn’t be any relation.”
    Thankfully, he hadn’t put it as a question, had stated his own opinion, so she didn’t have to lie. But that had been a horrible moment, when he’d mentioned her father. What could she have been thinking, to give her real name? Obviously, she hadn’t been thinking, and it was too late now.
    “Since she isn’t any relation, Percy, why mention it?” Derek said a bit dryly.
    Percy shrugged. “Was an interesting tale, is all, and her name reminded me of it. By the by, did you see the look on Ashford’s face when he passed us?”
    “Could hardly miss it, old boy.”
    “You don’t think there’ll be trouble from that quarter, d’you?”
    “The man’s a
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