All Chapters of DELICIA - DELIGHT - : Chapter 121

"Now do you know why I am glad to be rid of my ward?" demanded the Earl. "Oh", said Miss Tellaro foolishly, "I was afraid you meant me to marry your brother!" "Were you indeed? And was all the determined flirting I have been watching between you merely to show me how willing you were to oblige me? Nonsensical child! I have been in love with you almost from the first moment of setting eyes on you". "Oh, this is dreadful!" said Miss Tellaro, shaken by remorse. "I disliked you amazingly for weeks!" The Earl kissed her again. "You are wholly adorable", he said. "No, I am not", replied Miss Tellaro, a soon as she was able. "I am as disagreeable as you are. You would like to beat me. You said you would once, and I believe you meant it!" "If I only said it once I am astonished at my own forbearance. I have wanted to beat you at least a dozen times, and came very near to doing it once - at Cockfield. But I still think you ado