This Above All (CALLOWAY #2) by Dana LeCheminant EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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Staffordshire, England
October 1815
Nick Forester loved a good adventure as much as the next man, but
despite Miss Barton’s thrilled insistence that they were bound to be set upon
by a highwayman, he hardly considered waiting on the edge of the road an
adventure. Nearly an hour in and they still hadn’t managed to get the coach
unstuck from the mud.
He was tired, thirsty, and covered in mud, and the blasted woman had
been talking almost nonstop since leaving London. It was enough to make
him consider remaining a bachelor for the whole of his life. Surely not
every woman in the world was like Miss Barton; otherwise, he would most
certainly remain single for lack of a worthy partner. True, he had been
searching for a wife for years, and the unending loneliness of being on his
own wasn’t something he wished on his worst enemy. But at least on his
own he could hear himself think.
Unlike now.
“Can’t you just picture him riding in from the woods there?” Miss Barton
said, pointing with a flourish to a tiny copse of bare trees that hardly offered
an ounce of shade, let alone enough cover for a bandit. The landscape was
wide and open, fields stretching out for miles beneath gray and gloomy
skies.
“Doubtful,” Nick said. He stretched his legs out where he sat on a fallen
log, hoping his curt response would end her fantasy.
She was not dissuaded from continuing. “On his black horse, of course.”
“Of course,” he grumbled.
“With his pistols blazing.”
“I do not think you understand how pistols work, Miss Barton.”
“Oh, hush.” She giggled, batting her eyes at him. “Would you rescue me,
Mr. Forester?”
Nick knew she was testing him, trying to see how far she could push the
lines before he finally gave in to her temptations. He had considered it once,
but this journey from London had been enough to prove how incompatible
the two of them truly were. She was beautiful and moderately wealthy, with
a good name and family behind her, but if he tried to picture the rest of his
life with Catherine Barton at his side, the whole scenario made him shudder
in horror and consider hopping onto a ship to the Americas. He could start a
new life on a farm, and all his problems would be solved.
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