A Most Improper Rumor (25 page)

“You don’t sound very convinced, my lord. Why else are we here? If they had wished to harm us they certainly had every opportunity.”

He
wasn’t
convinced. A young debutante locked in a room with a man who had a reputation for seduction?

When he looked at it that way, the angle reflected an interesting light on the situation.

“There is harm, my lady, and
harm
. And the difference can be subtle.”

She was sitting on the edge of the bed now, her slender, shapely form wrapped in the concealing folds of the coverlet, and she regarded him with discomforting directness. “If you will excuse me for saying so, Lord Andrews, you are much more likely to have enemies than I am.”

“Perhaps,” he agreed with a hint of cynical practicality. “But would they exact vengeance by locking me in a room with a beautiful young lady?”

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