“I had to tell you I wouldn’t elope with you! While dust made my nose tickle and we were terrified someone standing on this side of the door would open it and discover us,” Jenny replied. “No, I refuse to go in there, Jack. I would never get the grime out of this dress and it is new.”
Jack pulled her around and put her back to the door, instead. His hands lingered on her waist. “It is a very pretty dress, Lady Guestwick. I would rue its ruin, too.” He pressed against her. “The gleam of the fabric makes me want to run my hands over it.”
Jenny shivered. “You have run your hands over it many times already today,” she pointed out.
He kissed her, his lips lingering, making her heart hurry and her body to tighten with delicious tension. “I do have something to ask of you,” he murmured. “Just as I did the first time we were in this cupboard.”
“I can’t marry you, Jack. I have already done that.”
Jack’s smile was brief. “It only took more than a dozen requests before you said yes, too. I hope you won’t be quite so stubborn about this question.”
“Stubborn!” Her breath caught.
Jack pressed his lips to hers once more, then drew back so he could study her face. “My family…my other family, I should say. They have finally had the courage to cut me off. I’ve been requested to vacate the townhouse and the estate in Lincolnshire…not that I was using the manor at all. Only, now it is formal and official.”
“Oh Jack, I’m so sorry,” Jenny whispered. “We haven’t been using the townhouse for very long.”
“I am not,” Jack said. “I should have done this many years ago. Now that it is official, I am free to build you a beautiful house, anywhere you want, and fill it with whatever comforts your heart desires.”
“Will there be bacon for breakfast every day?” she asked, smiling.
“You can have a pound of it, if you wish.”
“How marvelous, Jack.”
“Only, I would like to wait a few years, if you do not mind, my love.”
“Wait for what?”
“That is my question, Lady Guestwick. How would you feel…would you be comfortable…I mean…” He hesitated.
Jenny gave his jacket lapels a little shake. “Just say it, Jack,” she coaxed.
“It’s an odd thing to ask,” he told her.
“In this family? I doubt it could be all that strange.”
“I want us to live with Natasha and Raymond on their estate in Sussex,” Jack said. “Vaughn is taking Mama Elisa there to live, now, and leaving Fairleigh for Will. Elisa isn’t strong enough to face any more seasons in London. They will take Blanche and Emma with them, of course. Annalies and Rhys already live there and Iefan and Morgan have spoken about removing from London during the winter, too.” Jack hesitated, his gaze moving over her face. “I know a man should provide for his wife, only this feels…”
“It is perfect,” Jenny said quickly. “To live with the family and be together, amongst them? It is divine, Jack!”
He kissed her. “I suspected you would feel that way, my love. Thank you.”
“Only, we had better arrange to move rather soon,” she added.
He straightened, frowning. “I was thinking that summer would be soon enough…”
Jenny rested her hand on the flat front of her bodice. “Definitely before Easter, my dear husband.”
Jack closed his eyes for a moment. He let out a gusty breath and held her tightly. “I love you with every shred of my being.” Then he let her go and picked up her hand.
“To tell everyone the news?” she guessed.
“To tell the family, yes.”
They hurried back outside.
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She turned to indie publishing in 2011. Her indie titles have been nominated four times for Book Of The Year. Tracy won the award in 2012, and a SFR Galaxy Award in 2016 for “Most Intriguing Philosophical/Social Science Questions in Galaxybuilding” She has been a national magazine editor and for a decade she taught romance writing at MacEwan University.
She is addicted to Irish Breakfast tea and chocolate, sometimes taken together. In her spare time she enjoys history, Sherlock Holmes, science fiction and ignoring her treadmill. An Australian Canadian, she lives in Edmonton, Canada with her husband, a former professional wrestler, where she moved in 1996 after meeting him on-line.
Other books by Tracy Cooper-Posey
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Vistaria Has Fallen
Vistaria Has Fallen
Prisoner of War
Hostage Crisis
Freedom Fighters
Casualties of War
V-Day
Scandalous Scions
(Historical Romance Series – Spin off)
Rose of Ebony
Soul of Sin
Valor of Love
Marriage of Lies
Mask of Nobility
Law of Attraction
Veil of Honor
Once and Future Hearts
(Ancient
Historical Romance—Arthurian)
Born of No Man
Dragon Kin
Pendragon Rises
War Duke of Britain
High King of Britain
Battle of Mount Badon
Abduction of Guenivere
Downfall of Cornwall
Vengeance of Arthur
Grace of Lancelot
The Grail and Glory
Camlann
Romantic Thrillers Series
Fatal Wild Child
Dead Again
Dead Double
Terror Stash
Thrilling Affair (Boxed Set)
Scandalous Sirens
(Historical Romance Series)
Forbidden*
Dangerous Beauty
Perilous Princess
Go-get-‘em Women
(Short Romantic Suspense Series)
The Royal Talisman
Delly’s Last Night
Vivian’s Return
Ningaloo Nights
Blood Knot Series
(Urban Fantasy Paranormal Series)
Blood Knot
Southampton Swindle
Broken Promise
Vale
Amor Meus
Blood Stone
Blood Unleashed
Blood Drive
Blood Revealed
Blood Ascendant
The Sherlock Holmes Series
(Romantic Suspense/Mystery)
Chronicles of the Lost Years
The Case of the Reluctant Agent
Sherlock Boxed In
Beloved Bloody Time Series
(Paranormal Futuristic Time Travel)
Bannockburn Binding*
Wait
Byzantine Heartbreak
Viennese Agreement
Romani Armada
Spartan Resistance
Celtic Crossing
Kiss Across Time Series
(Paranormal Time Travel)
Kiss Across Time*
Kiss Across Swords
Time Kissed Moments
Kiss Across Chains
Kiss Across Deserts
Kiss Across Kingdoms
Time and Tyra Again
Kiss Across Seas
Kiss Across Worlds
The Kine Prophecies
(Epic Norse Fantasy Romance)
The Branded Rose Prophecy
The Stonebrood Saga
(Gargoyle Paranormal Series)
Carson’s Night
Beauty’s Beasts
Harvest of Holidays
Unbearable
Sabrina’s Clan
Pay The Ferryman
Hearts of Stone (Boxed Set)
Destiny’s Trinities
(Urban Fantasy Romance Series)
Beth’s Acceptance*
Mia’s Return
Sera’s Gift
The First Trinity
Cora’s Secret
Zoe’s Blockade
Octavia’s War
The Second Trinity
Terra’s Victory
Destiny’s Trinities (Boxed Set)
Interspace Origins
(Science Fiction Romance Series)
Faring Soul
Varkan Rise
Cat and Company
Interspace Origins (Boxed Set)
Short Paranormals
Solstice Surrender
Eva’s Last Dance
Three Taps, Then….
The Well of Rnomath
Jewells of Tomorrow
(Historical Romantic Suspense)
Diana By The Moon
Heart of Vengeance
The Endurance
(Science Fiction Romance Series)
5,001
Greyson’s Doom
Yesterday’s Legacy
Promissory Note
Quiver and Crave
Xenogenesis
Junkyard Heroes
Evangeliya
Skinwalker’s Bane
Contemporary Romances
Lucifer’s Lover
An Inconvenient Lover
The Indigo Reports
(Space Opera)
Flying Blind
New Star Rising
But Now I See
Suns Eclipsed
Worlds Beyond
Non-Fiction Titles
Reading Order
(Non-Fiction, Reference)
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FIRST EDITION: March, 2018
Cooper-Posey, Tracy
Mask of Nobility/Tracy Cooper-Posey—1st Ed.
Romance—Fiction
Historical – Fiction