Home for the Holidays
“She looked cold. She looked tired. She was windblown and damp from snow drizzles that she’d probably been caught in more than once. She was infinitely beautiful even with wind-chapped cheeks.
The anger came immediately to replace the worry he’d undergone, now that he could see she was unharmed, and he blasted her with it the second he reached her. “Don’t ever leave this house again without taking one of the footmen with you! Do you have no sense at all, to not realize what could happen to you o...ut on those bloody streets?”
She stared at him, and stared. She was probably too tired to muster any expression. Finally she said simply, “They aren’t my footmen to command.”
“Then consider them henceforth at your beck and call—!” he growled, only to be cut off.
“Nor did I have a choice in the matter. I had to go out… so I went.”
He gritted his teeth. “There is no ‘had to’ involved. The only rational choice would have been to stay indoors on a day like this.”
“That wouldn’t have found me a jeweler willing to pay a fair price for my pearls, nor an auction house interested in the paintings and other objects of art I mean to dispose of,”MoreLess
The anger came immediately to replace the worry he’d undergone, now that he could see she was unharmed, and he blasted her with it the second he reached her. “Don’t ever leave this house again without taking one of the footmen with you! Do you have no sense at all, to not realize what could happen to you o...ut on those bloody streets?”
She stared at him, and stared. She was probably too tired to muster any expression. Finally she said simply, “They aren’t my footmen to command.”
“Then consider them henceforth at your beck and call—!” he growled, only to be cut off.
“Nor did I have a choice in the matter. I had to go out… so I went.”
He gritted his teeth. “There is no ‘had to’ involved. The only rational choice would have been to stay indoors on a day like this.”
“That wouldn’t have found me a jeweler willing to pay a fair price for my pearls, nor an auction house interested in the paintings and other objects of art I mean to dispose of,”MoreLess
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