“I’m a lady peer,” she stated. “Of course I put on warm clothes and walk around in the drizzle and fog like the ghost of Cathy searching for Heathcliff.”
He busted out laughing.
He saw her smiling at him when he was done.
She rolled into him and stroked his jaw, mock frowning. “My Heathcliff isn’t very broody.”
“His Cathy sits on the floor like a disciple to his cock and tugs on his balls as any good girl should, there’s no reason to brood.”
Her eyes widened and she stopped stroking his jaw so she could slap his arm.
He grinned at her.
“You’re impossible,” she declared.
He put his mouth to hers, still smiling, and said, “But ye like me anyway.”
“Bluh,” she said against his lips.
She liked him.
He kissed her.
Not long later, they settled into bed.
And with Helena at rest not far from where they lay…
They fell asleep.
Chapter 17
Lady Norton Had Spoken
Dair
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“Yo, bruv,” Davi greeted as she strolled into the stables where Dair was saddling one of the horses to take it out for a ride.
It was Wednesday.
Nearly everyone was gone, but his mum, his sister, Alex, Rix and Ned.
His sister was working remotely, but she had to get back. She had plans for the weekend. His mum was going with her, and they were leaving on a flight out that evening. Dair was taking them to the airport.
At that moment, Ned, Blake and Alex were going over the estate’s accounts with Christine in the study.
Rix was supposed to meet him at the stables for a ride.
Dair had a match to call at Twickenham on Saturday, and he and Blake had made plans.
The next day, not only Blake, but all of them were going to come to London with him and catch the game. They’d return to Treverton on Sunday, after they took Ned, Alex and Rix to Heathrow because they were flying out that day.
There had been no talk of Blake going back to The States.
But there had been talk of her returning to Edinburgh with him.
He wasn’t mentioning her going home to New York.
