Luke Salieri has been bequeathed a manor house in Yorkshire, England. The state of it is slightly dilapidated but that's the easiest part of the problem for him. He had never met, nor ever heard of, Amelia Greywood - wonders why she has left her precious property and contents to him, but more importantly he wonders why she has set such Dickensian conditions to the bequest.
This novel was inspired from me watching a then current BBC serial and me beginning my Ancestry researches.
“Rhia!” he snorted
instead. “Of course it will. How could I ignore such a valuable property?”
Rejection and then
disappointment flashed across her lovely face before she answered, “You’ve lost
me.” Her gaze drew away. “Do you want it or not?”
“Rhia, please take
heed,” Luke sighed, his voice enticing her to turn back. He didn’t dare touch
her. And he did want it…but knew that wasn’t what she meant. He
didn’t dare use his fingertips to turn her delectable little chin toward him,
for he knew one fingering would never be enough. “It would be a crying shame to
leave that house to rot for another fifty years. It’s a valuable house and
valuable land. It could be converted to multiple uses for corporate business,
or as a hotel facility.”
“Ah…future revenues?”
Her eyes held that astutely impressive derision again.
His face crept
closer, his lips only a pout away. “Rhia, you wouldn’t want to be responsible
for that house to fall into even more disrepair, that house you’ve already professed
to love? Would you?”
She was floundering
like a non-swimmer in a forest puddle, indecision hovering over her gorgeous
eyes. He was confident she couldn’t resist him. His libido kicked in triple
time, but his resolve quadrupled.
“Would you want that
on your conscience? Knowing it was your fault it happened?”
“My fault?”
He knew his
propinquity was keeping her spellbound, but by her glower she wasn’t taking the
flack. Her disgusted expression informed him in no uncertain terms what she
thought about his last words.
Slainthe!
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