Miss Westlake's Windfall (27 page)

“No, she’ll be too busy planning for Esther’s Season in Town for the earl. If all works out, there could be a wedding in the summer. Perhaps two.”

“We’d have to wait so long?”

“Not our wedding, goose. We can get married tomorrow if you agree. I bought a special license while I was in London, in case I needed yet a third plan.”

“What was number three?”

“I was going to kidnap you onto one of Leo’s ships, then hold you there, kissing you and loving you until you said yes.”

“I think I like that plan best. Did you have a fourth scheme too?”

“Fourth, fifth, and sixth. Whatever it took. I would never give you up, sweetheart, not unless I saw you walk down the aisle with another man. Even then, I would have shot him. That was plan seventeen, I believe.”

“Totally unnecessary, my love, for I would never let you get away either. Not even I could be foolish enough to give up a magician who can make money and jewels fall from trees.”

Then Viscount Ashmead showed Ada another kind of magic. They’d be at it still, except the dog barked.

To Volunteers

Copyright © 2001 by Barbara Metzger

Originally published by Fawcett  (ISBN 0451202791)

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