“She never, ever slept in her own suite, but she kept all of her belongings there, and occasionally she did sit in front of the fire with a novel. Now she paused in the doorway, clad in a blue silk dressing gown, her expression worried. The Earl was stripped to his waist, still wearing his trousers, his feet stockinged. In his early fifties, he had the lean, hard body of a man who had spent, and did spend, much of his time in physical labor. He had learned to enjoy hard physical work as a boy gr...owing up in Texas, and it was not a habit he had ever cared to break. To this day, if there were a stone wall to be built or a barn to be raised, he gladly pitched in, as his time allowed. Now, he met his wife's blue gaze, his own features grim. She bit her lip, coming forward. "Whatever is going on between them, Nicholas?" "So you saw, too?" "How could I not see!? For all that he tried to hide it, the Duke was nearly seething, and Nicole, I would swear that she was teasing him, taunting him." The Earl sat on a divan to remove his stockings.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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