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Curse it, why couldn't she have stayed in just one place? Was there any reason why she should have lain on one side of the bed and then moved to the other to make room for hiue lemony scent that alafted around her face And the blasted chiton his back didn't protect hih your nose, he chanted internally Don't breathe through your nose

She rolled over, eh

Close your ears

Shesound with her lips, then rolled over again

It's not her, a little piece of his ive it up, the rest of his brain replied You want Henry, and you want her bad

Dunford gritted his teeth and prayed for sleep

He prayed hard

And he was not a religious man

Henry felt war the most beautiful drea in the drea utterly indulged and languid She shifted in her sleep, sighing contentedly as the smell of ood and brandy drifted under her nose It was a lovely smell Rather like Dunford He always smelled like ood and brandy, even when he hadn't had a drop of drink Funny how he ed that Funny how his smell was in her bed

Henry's eyelids fluttered open

Funny hoas in her bed

She let out an involuntary gasp before she remembered she was at an inn on the way to London and had done what no gently bred lady would ever ever do She had offered to share her bed with a gentleman

Henry bit her lip and sat up He had looked so uncoht of tossing and turning followed by several days of an aching back And it wasn't as if he'd touched her Hell, she thought indelicately, he didn't need to The man was a human furnace She probably would have felt the war to colow Henry looked down at thenext to her She rather hoped this entire escapade did not ruin her reputation before she even ht wryly, it would be rather ironic, considering she'd done nothing of which to be asha hie sensations he elicited in her--they were desire, plain and sis, there was no use lying to herself about the painful, however She knew she couldn't have hi her to London to marry her off He'd said as much

If only he weren't so darned nice

If she could hate hi would be so much easier She could be mean and vicious and convince hi to her, her desire for hi that love and desire were, for her at least, irrevocably entwined And part of the reason she was so crazy about hiood person If he were a lesser uardian, and he wouldn't insist on taking her to London and giving her a season

And he certainly wouldn't be doing all this because he wanted her to be happy

Clearly, he was not an easy man to hate