![]() “I’m not sitting on my arse all day anymore, playing pretty tunes and idling hours away. “We eat regularly.” Val sank into the water on a heartfelt sigh. Have you no provisions at your campsite?” “My wife will want to stuff you like a goose, Windham. He eyed the tub with something close to lust and stepped in without another word.īelmont regarded Val’s naked form with frank appraisal. “You’re in need of sympathy from your new wife already?” Val asked as he stepped out of his breeches. My toes will probably be purple until Christmas. “I was resetting a pair of shoes on Abby’s gelding a few days ago, and he spooked on the cross ties. “Tell me about it.” Belmont took Val’s boots and set them outside the door. “Manual labor is not without its perils.” ![]() “I’ve managed to do some damage to it.” Val sat to remove his boots, taking his hand from Belmont’s inspection. “What’s wrong with this hand?” Belmont took Val’s left hand in his own and peered at it curiously. Darius had taken his inconsiderate self off to London at first light, leaving Val to don proper attire for the first time in days, and make a slow, difficult job of it. ![]() Val let him, thinking back to how long it had taken his left hand to actually get the right cuff link fastened. “Let me.” Belmont snagged Val’s sleeve and deftly removed a cuff link. ![]() “Roofs tend to be in the sun,” Val said, “if one is fortunate.” “And you’ve spent a deal of time in the sun.” “You look skinny,” Axel Belmont observed as he closed the guest room door behind the last of the bucket-laden footmen. ![]()
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