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“Not to ive you were that to happen”

She stole a glance at hiument

Hyacinth waited quietly while he thought about what to do The silence was horrible While she’d been going on about the diary, she’d been able to forget that he’d kissed her, that she’d enjoyed it, and that he apparently hadn’t She’d thought that their next oal and a mission, she’d felt restored to her usual self, and even if he didn’t take her along to find the diamonds, she supposed she still owed Isabella thanks for that

But all the saht she’d die if he left her behind Either that or kill him

She gripped her hands together, hiding theesture, and the e She hated that she was nervous, hated that he made her nervous, hated that she had to sit there and not say a hile he pondered her options But contrary to popular belief, she did occasionally knohen to keep hermore she could say that would sway him one way or the other Except maybe…

No, even she wasn’t crazy enough to threaten to go by herself

“What were you going to say?” Gareth asked

“I beg your pardon?”

He leaned forward, his blue eyes sharp and unwavering “What were you going to say?”

“What ?”

“I could see it in your face”

She cocked her head to the side “You know me that well?”

“Frightening though it may seem, apparently I do”

She watched as he sat back in his seat He reminded her of her brothers as he shifted in the too-s that herroom was decorated for tiny females But that here the resemblance ended None of her brothers had ever possessed the daring to wear his hair back in such a rakish queue, and none of them ever looked at her with that blue-eyed intensity that et her own name

He see Orfor her to crack under the pressure