A Loving Scoundrel

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by Johanna Lindsey


  They’d just spent several hours making up for missing each other. The bedcovers were in disarray. She was lying against Jeremy’s chest, his arms firmly around her. She wasn’t the least bit tired yet. Neither was he.

  “We’ll have to air out this place a bit more. It’s still a bit musty,” Jeremy was saying.

  Danny agreed. “It was only recently cleaned, had been closed down all these years.” Then she thought to ask, “Did you want to live here?”

  “No,” he replied, then asked after a long pause, “Did you?”

  “No, I rather like your house better. It’s much easier to clean.”

  He sat up abruptly and frowned down at her. “Don’t even think of still cleaning that house, Danny. I mean it. Your days of wielding a duster are over.”

  She chuckled at him, pulling him back down so she could get comfortable again. “I was just teasing. I’m quite aware of my elevated circumstance.”

  He mumbled, “It’s a bloody good thing I wasn’t aware of it before I asked you to marry me, or I probably wouldn’t have asked.”

  Now she sat up abruptly and demanded, “Why not?”

  “Because, m’dear, your mother wouldn’t have let me anywhere near you, so I wouldn’t have gotten to know you, wouldn’t have fallen in love, would still be going about my merry way blissfully unaware that I’d be miserable without you.”

  She thought about that for a moment and then laughed. “She would have welcomed you once she got to know you.”

  “Don’t count on it, luv. She would have sized me up and decided a scoundrel like me wasn’t good enough for her daughter. You could have aspired to a lofty title, you know, and that’s the way mothers think.”

  “I’d like to be one to find out.”

  “One what?”

  “A mother.” Then she whispered, “I want a baby, Jeremy, your baby.”

  He groaned, pulled her back into his arms, said huskily just before he kissed her, “It’s going to be my absolute pleasure to grant that wish, Danny, I do assure you.”

  “Since it’s going to be my pleasure, too, can we work on it a little bit more tonight?”

  “Tonight, tomorrow, every single day until you’re puking your guts out, dear girl.”

  “I’m not going to have morning sickness. My mother said she didn’t, nor her mother.”

  “Don’t run in the family, eh? Well, that’s one thing I’ll thank your mother for.”

  “Doesn’t,” Danny said.

  “Eh?”

  “Doesn’t run in the family.” She beamed at him. “Now that was rather nice, correcting you for a change.” Then she mimicked him, “’Deed it was.”

  Jeremy burst out laughing.

  CONTENTS

  Prologue

  Chapter One

  Chapter Two

  Chapter Three

  Chapter Four

  Chapter Five

  Chapter Six

  Chapter Seven

  Chapter Eight

  Chapter Nine

  Chapter Ten

  Chapter Eleven

  Chapter Twelve

  Chapter Thirteen

  Chapter Fourteen

  Chapter Fifteen

  Chapter Sixteen

  Chapter Seventeen

  Chapter Eighteen

  Chapter Nineteen

  Chapter Twenty

  Chapter Twenty-One

  Chapter Twenty-Two

  Chapter Twenty-Three

  Chapter Twenty-Four

  Chapter Twenty-Five

  Chapter Twenty-Six

  Chapter Twenty-Seven

  Chapter Twenty-Eight

  Chapter Twenty-Nine

  Chapter Thirty

  Chapter Thirty-One

  Chapter Thirty-Two

  Chapter Thirty-Three

  Chapter Thirty-Four

  Chapter Thirty-Five

  Chapter Thirty-Six

  Chapter Thirty-Seven

  Chapter Thirty-Eight

  Chapter Thirty-Nine

  Chapter Forty

  Chapter Forty-One

  Chapter Forty-Two

  Chapter Forty-Three

  Chapter Forty-Four

  Chapter Forty-Five

  Chapter Forty-Six

  Chapter Forty-Seven

  Chapter Forty-Eight

  Chapter Forty-Nine

  Chapter Fifty

  Chapter Fifty-One

  Chapter Fifty-Two

 

 

 


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