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She lifted a brow “I never said I was a ht”

“No,” Gareth said, feeling his lips twitch “No, you certainly did not”

Hyacinth clapped her hands together, then set them both palms down on her lap She looked at him expectantly “Well, then,” she said, once it was apparent that he had no further coo?”

“Go?” he echoed

“To look for the dia to anything I’ve said?”

Gareth suddenly had a terrifying vision of what it must be like inside her ood God—al as

well She’d probably insist upon lowering herself out her bedroomon knotted sheets, too

“We are not going anywhere,” he said firmly

“Of course we are,” she said “You et those jewels You can’t let your father have them”

“I will go”

“You’re not leaving me behind” It was a statement, not a question Not that Gareth would have expected otherwise from her

“If I attempt to break into Clair House,” Gareth said, “and that is a rather large if, I will have to do so in the dead of night”

“Well, of course”

Good God, did the wo to reat show of exaggerated patience, he finished with, “I aet, for one er, of which I assure you there is plenty If ere caught, I would be required to marry you, and I can only assume your desire for that outcome evenly matches mine”

It was an overblown speech, and his tone had been rather po her to close her h the convoluted structure of his sentences