The Other Guy's Bride
“He’d lost his composure. His near giddy relief that the woman Owens had described—an intemperate, loquacious, and impulsive woman who’d been held captive for four days and nights by savages—was not Mildred had given way to giddy scorn. He felt he’d behaved badly, and he blamed the girl, again, not without cause. She was definitely at fault. But he was a gentleman and a gentleman’s code demanded he apologize.
Besides which she was the daughter of Harry Braxton, a man renowned for his protective ...instincts, hot temper, and far-ranging influence in Egypt. And apparently she also meant something to James Owens, a man with an even more dangerous reputation, if less well-known.
So he had asked her into his office and apologized. The bold creature had simply said, “Fine,” and then she asked him to send her with a full escort out forty miles into the desert so she could dig for a lost city.
Well, he had made it clear in no uncertain terms that he was not the sort of man to reward duplicity and deceit.MoreLess
Besides which she was the daughter of Harry Braxton, a man renowned for his protective ...instincts, hot temper, and far-ranging influence in Egypt. And apparently she also meant something to James Owens, a man with an even more dangerous reputation, if less well-known.
So he had asked her into his office and apologized. The bold creature had simply said, “Fine,” and then she asked him to send her with a full escort out forty miles into the desert so she could dig for a lost city.
Well, he had made it clear in no uncertain terms that he was not the sort of man to reward duplicity and deceit.MoreLess
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