Total pages in book: 78
Estimated words: 75705 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 379(@200wpm)___ 303(@250wpm)___ 252(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 75705 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 379(@200wpm)___ 303(@250wpm)___ 252(@300wpm)
She decided to try one more time. “I love you. I l—”
“You’re still trying to teach that bird?” Gabriel entered the drawing room.
“Of course I am. I never give up.”
“Yes, about that.” He tugged off his gloves and threw them onto a side table. “Mind telling me why there’s a flock of sheep in the mews?”
“There are three sheep in the mews,” she said. “Three sheep are not a ‘flock.’”
“Flock or not, they are three more sheep than we had in the mews this morning.”
“They’re going to the farm, I promise.” Under her breath, she added, “Just as soon as they’re out of quarantine.”
The farm was the first purchase Penny had made with Mr. Lambert’s seized assets. They’d begun with a smallholding in Kent, but when a parcel of adjacent land had come available, she’d enlarged the place. They rebuilt the old farmhouse and added new barns.
The farm wasn’t only a home for unwanted animals. During the summer, it was their home, as well. Emma, Alex, and Nicola brought their families to visit. Last year, they’d even welcomed Bradford and his boys for a few weeks, just before the Michaelmas school term began—and Gabriel was actually civil to her brother, for the most part.
Gabriel sat down on a bench to remove his boots. “Where’s Jacob?”
“At the park, with Emma and Richmond.”
“The baby?”
“Sleeping.”
He dropped his boot to the floor and gave her a slow, wicked grin. “Is that so?”
“Yes, it is.” She walked toward the bench, moving with a coquettish sway in her hips. He caught her by the waist and hauled her into his lap for a slow, deep kiss.
“I love you,” he said. “You may never teach that damned parrot to say it, but you taught me. You’ll never hear the end of it now, pretty girl. I love you.” Kiss. “I love you.” Kiss. “I love you.”
Penny laced her arms about her husband’s neck. “Fancy a fuck, love?”