Yankee Earl
“ “I shall talk. You will listen.”
Although his eyes blazed back at her, he remained silent.
“Good, you possess a few shreds of common sense,” she said, releasing her tight grip on his hair but keeping the dagger to his throat. “I do not require rescuing. Not today, not ever. I had my own ‘fight instructor,’ a canny old groom who used to be a Whitechapel cutpurse before my mother gave him respectable work in an attempt to reform him.
“But that is neither here nor there. Th...e plain fact is that your precipitous method of handling this stupid affair has just destroyed any hope we had for you and Fox to slip away to Bristol. After this buffoonery, the marquess will see that he's guarded by someone significantly more adept than yon ox.”
As she slipped the knife back into her boot, Jason seethed. “Might I suggest that ‘yon ox’ here would not have accosted you in the first place if you dressed the part of lady of the manor instead of stable hand?”MoreLess
Although his eyes blazed back at her, he remained silent.
“Good, you possess a few shreds of common sense,” she said, releasing her tight grip on his hair but keeping the dagger to his throat. “I do not require rescuing. Not today, not ever. I had my own ‘fight instructor,’ a canny old groom who used to be a Whitechapel cutpurse before my mother gave him respectable work in an attempt to reform him.
“But that is neither here nor there. Th...e plain fact is that your precipitous method of handling this stupid affair has just destroyed any hope we had for you and Fox to slip away to Bristol. After this buffoonery, the marquess will see that he's guarded by someone significantly more adept than yon ox.”
As she slipped the knife back into her boot, Jason seethed. “Might I suggest that ‘yon ox’ here would not have accosted you in the first place if you dressed the part of lady of the manor instead of stable hand?”MoreLess
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