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“Do you think you can stand?” he said

How could she stand when her lie?

“Come, children, take an arm each Your father is stuck unless you lift me up”

Lord Farleigh looked quite content lying on the grass in just his shirtsleeves The thought that he’d removed his coat, and that the thin linen was all that lay between her and his bare skin, caused a host of scandalous ies to flood her mind

“Your cheeks are red” Alice stared up at her

“Are they? Well, it is rather warm out”

Lord Farleigh cast her a sinful grin “I have to agree I too am rather hot beneath the collar”

Jacob cath to stand

In one fluid h jurass from his buckskin breeches

Rose averted her gaze, and with treood at tying knots, Jacob”

The boy looked to his father who patted his head and winked

“Allow h came behind her and set to work on the knot The pads of his fingers slipped into her hair, brushing the sensitive skin on her scalp “I thought youup the worm,” he whispered in her ear

“Thankfully, I couldn’t see it Besides, I’ll take a worm over a bed full of toads”

The scarf fell away in her hands, and she gave it to Alice Either Lord Farleigh had no idea the iteed to his wife, or he found the fact unimportant

“Now, I happened to notice soh hauled Alice up into his arate?”