A Gentle Grace (Wedded Women Quartet) by Jillian Eaton

Author:Jillian Eaton [Eaton, Jillian]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Bay Horse
Published: 2013-01-21T08:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

There was a reason Grace possessed such a fondness for pastries. She allowed her friends and family to think it was because of her perpetual sweet tooth, and while that was certainly true, it was also not the whole reason, nor even the half of it.

No, the real reason she adored pastries was the memory they evoked. One bite of the thinly layered dough to the fruit filling within and she was a young girl again, entertaining her first gentleman caller on the veranda of her parent’s modest country estate while her mother peered anxiously through the window and her father oh-so-casually cleaned one of his rifles in the drawing room.

Of course her first caller it had been Stephen.

It had always been Stephen.

Even now, four years removed from the moment that had changed the course of her life forever, Grace was able to recall every detail with absolute clarity as she nibbled on the edge of a sweet raspberry tart. Quite cognizant of the damage the delicious pastry could do to her ivory gown, she wrapped it in a cloth napkin and wandered to the rear of the supper room where a small collection of mismatched tables and chairs had been set up.

She sat gratefully, her feet and ankles already weary from being pinched in her too tight dancing slippers, and while the ton mingled all around her, oblivious to one solitary female of nondescript appearance, she ate her raspberry tart and remembered her first kiss.

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