Taken By Storm
Taken By Storm
“According to Philip, Lady Alaina’s routine was to enter the garden, walk to the edge of the forest until she came to a row of box hedges, then stroll around them and retrace her trail.
The high hedges would afford them privacy, and the length it took to walk them would provide him with the needed twenty minutes.
He was anxious to speak with her, anxious to learn all he could about his brother, anxious to be one step closer to freeing Cullen.
He heard the rustle of footsteps and the swish of mat...erial along the ground and stilled, waiting for Lady Alaina to turn the corner of the hedges.
She did and startled to a stop.
“Forgive my intrusion,” Burke said and offered his arm to her and quickly refreshed her memory of him. “We met at the seamstress shop in St. Andrew. Burke Longton from America.”
Her tense stance eased and she accepted his arm. “Forgive me, I did not know you visited with my father.”
“I haven’t visited with your father. It is you I wished to see.”
Her steps faltered and he was quick to reassure her.MoreLess
The high hedges would afford them privacy, and the length it took to walk them would provide him with the needed twenty minutes.
He was anxious to speak with her, anxious to learn all he could about his brother, anxious to be one step closer to freeing Cullen.
He heard the rustle of footsteps and the swish of mat...erial along the ground and stilled, waiting for Lady Alaina to turn the corner of the hedges.
She did and startled to a stop.
“Forgive my intrusion,” Burke said and offered his arm to her and quickly refreshed her memory of him. “We met at the seamstress shop in St. Andrew. Burke Longton from America.”
Her tense stance eased and she accepted his arm. “Forgive me, I did not know you visited with my father.”
“I haven’t visited with your father. It is you I wished to see.”
Her steps faltered and he was quick to reassure her.MoreLess
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