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Lucius couldn’t help but smile He was to blame Sometimes lust was hard to hide “Not what, but who Newberry must have mentioned our conversation at the auction I defended your character far too quickly”

She pursed her lips “Only out of respect for my father”

“Out of respect for you” Respect was the only thing preventing hi openly about his need for this woman

Her e around the dance floor like a wolf assessing his prey Lord Newberry doesn’t know that you promised to protect me He must have assumed you were jealous”

Jealousy had flooded his body with bitter poison “I sensed he made you uneasy”

“Lord Newberry is an odious creature” She shuddered “Threatening wohten me”

“Frighten you? How?” He made a mental note to pounce on the lord in the darkness To teach hi of terror

“He suggested soht kidnap me from bed and lock me away in an asylum”

“Kidnap you?” Suspicion flared Perhaps Newberry hired the sole Scot to assist in his duplicity “Kidnap you because you have an interest in your father’s books?”

The iven Newberry some provocation “I said I had read my father’s journals I said they contain more than scientific theories and practically accused him of deception and betrayal”

What the devil?

“Have you lost your th not to raise his voice and punch the air He stepped closer, and she shuffled back against the row of bookcases “If Newberry is guilty of a cri rid of you”

“What is the point of firing a ht it better to load the trebuchet and hurl a fireball over the battlements”

“A fireball!” His mouth dropped open

Miss Atwood smiled and tapped him under the chin “There is sense in my madness This ill force the villain to attack It is far better than waiting like sitting ducks”