The Heiress - Lynsay Sands [126]
Noting the vulnerability and fear on her face, Daniel closed his eyes briefly with regret, thinking it was amazing how one careless comment could come back to bite a person. He had no doubt the memory of those words had helped little when she’d read the letter Danvers had left supposedly from him.
Opening his eyes, he caught her face in his hands and said solemnly, “You are a proper lady when it is required, and when you aren’t, I love you even more for it. You are everything I could want in a wife, Suzette, and I love you just as you are; smart, funny, courageous and sassy. I do love you.” He hugged her close, admitting, “I just wish I’d said it first.”
Suzette shrugged in his arms. “You should have been faster then.”
Daniel closed his eyes and burst out laughing. In the back of his mind he heard Lord Madison saying that Suzette was like her mother and that he had been kept hopping to try to keep up with her. Daniel didn’t have a doubt in the world that it would be the same with Suzette . . . and he was looking forward to it.
Shaking his head, he tipped her face up and kissed her firmly. “Let’s go out to the courtyard. I can’t wait to make you my wife.”
“All right,” she murmured, pulling away and allowing him to lead her from the room before adding, “Though you aren’t fooling me, my lord. I know why you are really so eager to marry.”
“Why is that?” Daniel asked.
Suzette shrugged and teased, “You just don’t want to have to sleep with my father and Robert on the return journey to London.”
Daniel burst out laughing and hugged her close, thinking life would be a joy with this woman and he couldn’t wait to start it.
About the Author
LYNSAY SANDS is the nationally bestselling author of the Argeneau vampire series as well as more than thirty historical novels and anthologies known for their humorous edge. Visit her official website at www.lynsaysands.net.
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By Lynsay Sands
The Heiress
The Countess
The Hellion and the Highlander
Taming the Highland Bride
Devil of the Highlands
Hungry For You
Born to Bite
The Renegade Hunter
The Immortal Hunter
The Rogue Hunter
Vampire, Interrupted
Vampires Are Forever
The Accidental Vampire
Bite Me if You Can
A Bite to Remember
A Quick Bite
Copyright
This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
THE HEIRESS. Copyright © 2011 by Lynsay Sands. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
EPub Edition March 2011 ISBN: 9780062065735
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