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A wicked grin replaced his elated s a confession from his devious lips Then we shall visit Wycliff before returning hoood on your promise to make my toes curl”

Heavens, she could hardly wait

“You omitted one minor detail”

“Oh? And I’h”

Sybil arched a coy brow “On the way to town, you s”

Chapter Seventeen

“There is no evidence to suggest Lord Newberry is the mystery third owner of theabout its collapse Or that he killedclose to the truth”

“No evidence at all,” Lucius agreed as he watched Sybil brush her skirts and straighten her jaunty hat “Only conjecture But I can be rather persuasive when I want so”

“Very persuasive Still, you cannot barge into a peer’s home and accuse hireen pelisse and relaxed back in the carriage seat “There How do I look?”

“Composed Confident Like a woman ready to tear the truth from the devil’s lips”

She ss?”

Her lover? Oh, he wanted to be so ained frolow I find utterly captivating”

A light laugh left her “I admire your honesty”

And yet he had not been totally honest Navigating unfamiliar territory left him nervous, unsteady on his feet How did a man tell a woman he had fallen in love with her? How did he explain what she meant to him?

“I’ his physical ache “In the na me on the journey home”