As You Are
“The closest he’d come was a message relayed to him through his butler that Finley was on his property. He’d attempted to speak to Clara about it directly, to make certain Finley hadn’t frightened or imposed upon her, but she had retreated to her bedchamber, where no true gentleman could go.
Edmund and Alice, on the other hand, seemed unwilling to be parted from him. Edmund shadowed him all over the house and stables. Echoes of “Mister!” rang through the halls of Havenworth with regularity. But Clara remained elusive.
It seemed he’d offended her with his kiss. Perhaps he’d done it wrong. Perhaps he was simply no good at it. He didn’t want to think about the obvious answer, that she didn’t return his feelings.
He’d thought almost constantly of what it would be like to kiss her again, to hear her say she cared for him.
“Corbin?” Edmund sat at the desk in the library, reading.
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