He said nothing for several seconds. Then he turned to Connor. “Did you come alone?”
Connor slid her an apologetic glance before turning to Jack. “Aye.”
She gave the rose another twist, praying Jack wouldn’t order Connor to take her home right then and there.
Jack’s features hardened, and she held her breath. He hardly resembled the smiling man of the past two weeks, the one who brought her flowers each day, the one who always looked at her with warmth in his eyes. “Prepare the ship, Connor. We sail tonight.”
She took a wobbly step, the mutilated rose slipping from her fingers. “But I don’t want to go back.”
Jack said nothing, didn’t even act like he heard her. He just turned and marched to the house. Torie stared at his back, willing him to come back and tell her she didn’t have to leave him. She wanted to collapse on the ground and sob her heart out.
“Lady Victoria?”
She blinked and looked up at Connor. “Please. I don’t want to go back.”
His features softened. “Och, now, lassie. Yer family is worried aboot ye. Ye need tae gae back home, aye.”
She glanced back to Jack as he yanked open the door to the stone house and stepped inside. No, what she needed was something—someone—else.
aBOUT THE AUTHOR
Instead of whiling away her teenage summers at the pool or the mall, Tiffany Green found the incredible world of romance novels. Then, ten years later, she got the greatest epiphany of her life: why not write her very own romance novel? And after reading a couple Judith McNaught’s Regency-set historicals, Tiffany found her favorite time and place. Although historical romances are her first love, she has recently delved into some fantasy, having grown to adore all the ladies of the Arthurian legend.
When Tiffany is not working on her books, she helps her husband of twenty years run an automotive paint and body business in central Texas. She considers herself living proof that opposites do attract, as she enjoys cruises and traveling across the pond, her husband would rather stay home and add to his growing hearse heard and other oddball collections. While having an MBA has certainly helped Tiffany grow the family business, she dreams of the day when she can set her full-time business life aside for getting in print all those demanding characters who will not leave her alone.
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