“Nothing…everything.” She was grateful to have something to take her mind off the fact that James didn’t love her. Them! Her brothers were being too high-handed by half. “Would you two mind telling me what I’m doing here?”
“It’s all part of the plan, Georgie.”
“What plan? To drive me crazy?”
“No.” Thomas chuckled. “To get your husband to be reasonable.”
“I don’t understand.”
“Would he let Warren see you?” Drew asked her.
“Well, no.”
“Would he have changed his mind about it, do you think?” Thomas asked.
“Well, no, but—”
“He’s got to be made to see that he can’t keep you from us, Georgie.”
Her eyes flared. “You intend to take me all the way home just to teach him a lesson?” she cried.
Thomas grinned at her chagrin. “I doubt it will be necessary to go that far.”
“But if he thinks we will…” Drew didn’t feel it necessary to elaborate, and it wasn’t.
Georgina sighed. “You don’t know my husband. All this is going to do is get him mad.”
“Maybe. But I guarantee it will also work.”
She doubted it, but wasn’t going to argue about it. “So why couldn’t Warren have told me all this last night?”
Drew snorted before answering, “Because our dear Warren never agreed to the plan. He has every intention of taking you home with us.”
“What!”
“Now don’t worry about Warren, sweetheart,” Thomas told her. “We won’t be leaving for at least a week, and your husband is sure to show up long before then to settle this thing.”
“A week? You came all this way, won’t you stay longer than that?”
“We’ll be back.” Thomas chuckled. “And quite regularly, it seems, since Clinton has decided that as long as we’re here anyway, we might as well make this rescue profitable. He’s off right now arranging for future cargoes.”
Georgina might have laughed at that if she weren’t so upset by all of this. “I’m delighted to hear it, but I didn’t need rescuing.”
“We didn’t know that, sweetheart. We’ve been worried sick about you, especially since, according to Boyd and Drew, you didn’t go willingly with Malory.”
“But you know now that I did so why won’t Warren give it up?”
“Warren is hard to understand at the best of times, but in this case…Georgie, don’t you know that you’re the only woman that he has any kind of feelings at all for?”
“Are you trying to tell me he’s given up women?” She snorted.
“I don’t meanthosekind of feelings, but the tender kind. I think it actually upsets him that he has any feelings at all. He wants to be completely hardhearted, but there you are, making him care.”
“He’s right, Georgie,” Drew added. “Boyd said that he’d never in his life seen Warren so upset as when he came home and found you gone off to England.”
“And then Malory arrived, and he saw it as his inability to protect you.”
“But that’s absurd,” she protested.
