And I did it with a candlestick,' she half-laughed and half-gasped, pulling away to hold up her weapon. Radcliffe took the pistol as it suddenly hung limply in the other man's hand.īeth waited just long enough for him to point the weapon at the villain, then rushed around him to hug her sister. 'You will give up your gun to Lord Radcliffe, will you not?' Fancy meeting you here,' Beth trilled cheerfully, then nudged him a little harder in the ribs with her weapon. 'If you expect me to believe' His voice died as something hard poked him in his lower back. Most of them have been sold and the money invested.' When he started to shake his head with patent disbelief, she shrugged. If you kill Radcliffe, all you will get from marrying me are a couple of paltry jewels. Four days prior to our arrival in Gretna Green she married Tomas, then the morning your men rode into Gretna with us, she dressed up as Charles and married Radcliffe. Radcliffe and I are not even really married Beth is the one who married him in Gretna Green.' Your plan never would have worked in any case. 'He is right,' Charlie said calmly when the man chuckled derisively at the threat. 'Not in this lifetime, Norwich,' Radcliffe snarled. 'Really? Well, I can hardly wait to experience her full passion.'

'I prefer to think of her as passionate.' Norwich frowned at her, then raised an eyebrow at Radcliffe. 'Then you could give nice little orders like die and we would just drop at your feet.' 'Oh, yes, that would be nice, would it not?' Charlie snapped over Radcliffe's shoulder.

Why can you not simply do as you are told? Things would be so much easier if you did so.' Norwich frowned at him with annoyance as he raised his gun and aimed it, then said, 'I do not know what is the matter with you two. At the bottom of the stairs, Radcliffe moved quickly to place himself protectively before his not-quite-legally-married-wife andfaced the man. Much to Radcliffe's amazement, Charlie continued down even as Norwich stepped back and raised his gun to await them. They were halfway down them when Norwich appeared at the bottom. The moment he had stepped through the door, she pulled it closed and locked it, then pocketed the keys and hurried toward the stairs. 'Well? Are you coming, or had you intended to wait there for midnight?'Ĭlosing his gaping mouth, Radcliffe got quickly to his feet and stumbled forward. When the behemoth crumpled to the floor in a heap, she tossed the holder aside, bent to snatch the keys from his limp hand, then straightened to eye Radcliffe impatiently.

The Switch by Lynsay Sands