A Diamond for a Duke by Collette Cameron

Author:Collette Cameron
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Seductive Scoundrels Book One
Publisher: Blue Rose Romance
Published: 2017-07-16T16:00:00+00:00

Sighing, feeling more content than he had in—well, in months, perhaps years—Jules untied his cravat, and after tossing it atop the French baroque table behind the sofa, sank onto the charcoal damask-covered cushions.

He’d bid a sleepy-eyed Sabrina goodnight, then retreated to his study to contemplate the evening’s remarkable events.

One specific incident, that was.

Stumbling upon Miss Jemmah Dament, and in an instant his life had changed.

He touched two fingertips to his lips, not surprised to find a cock-eyed smile bending his mouth. In the last two hours, he’d smiled more than in the past two years, and his providential encounter with Jemmah had set him on a new course.

By all the chirping crickets playing a grand symphony beyond the study’s French window, a path he eagerly anticipated.

He’d found his diamond in the rough.

Perhaps not so rough, except for her humble attire.

Jemmah would polish up brilliantly, and then those who’d ignored her, overlooked her loveliness, would grind their teeth in vexation.

She’d blossomed into a remarkable and sensuous young woman. Tall, lithe, and boasting delightful, rounded womanly curves, two of which had taunted him unmercifully above her bodice, her features and form had embedded themselves in his memory.

A self-depreciatory, yet joy-filled chuckle, burgeoned in his chest then rumbled forth, filling the silent, fire-lit room.

Mere hours ago, he’d avowed himself indifferent to marriage, and now, he calculated just how soon he might take the charming, witty, a trifle shy and awkward, but wholly delectable and precious Jemmah Dament to wife.

If someone asked him how he could be so absolutely positive he should do so, he couldn’t have answered them with logic and reason, for neither had anything whatsoever to do with the giddiness—yes, by all the cigars at Whites’s, giddiness—humming through him.

He just knew.

Simple as that.

Not a damned lucid thing about it.

Like wild creatures recognize their offspring, a river discerns what course its waters must flow, wildfowls’ instincts urge them to fly south for the winter, or even the sun understanding that it must rise every morning and then slowly descend each eve—

He knew.

Drowsy, content, and resolute, Jules shut his eyes and daydreamed about when he’d see his precious, sky-eyed Jemmah again.

Was tomorrow too soon to propose?

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