A Summer Scandal (Seasons of Romance Book 3) by Osborne Rachel

Author:Osborne, Rachel [Osborne, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Rachel Osborne
Published: 2020-06-19T16:00:00+00:00

“WELL! I CALL THAT QUITE rude!”

Aunt Reed had declared Nash quite rude above a handful of times and every time she did it was like a dagger to Louisa’s heart. There was no pretending, now. Nash was not playing a game with her, he had not mistaken her for a stranger or failed to see her at all. He had looked directly at her, smiled a little, at least she thought she had, just enough to cause her hopes to rise just a little all the more cruelly to be dashed when he turned and fled from her as if from a firing squad.

Louisa kept her head down, no longer eager to see the dresses worn by elegant London ladies, nor to admire the tall ceilings and shaped cornices of the building her uncle had rhapsodised over on their way here. She was not quick enough to avoid the helpless look exchanged between Juliet and Edmund, and when he offered his arm to her and not to his fiancée, Louisa’s face flamed with embarrassment. She took it, unable to think of a suitable refusal, and lifted her head as he escorted her into the room, chattering ten-to-the-dozen as if to distract her. She scarcely heard a word, though, her eyes scanning the crowd. It took her a moment to realise she was looking for someone, and a moment longer to realise she was looking for Nash. She bit her lip and looked down, wondering just how foolish she must be to still want to see him after being so pointedly snubbed.

He was not like that before! She wanted to scream the words aloud, to explain to everyone she passed that she was not a foolish little wallflower, easily swayed by a few sweet words and handsome smiles.

Was it this, then, that hurt her more than Nash himself? She had been misled. She! Louisa Turner, the most beautiful and petted of all her sisters. She had been destined for greatness and certain that, when her time came, she would have scores of suitors and be able to marry precisely as she chose. Now it seemed she was deemed only worthy of games from a gentleman who had no intention of ever marrying her, if he even thought to see her again.

I thought he cared for me. This, then, was the shame of it all. She had believed his affections to be genuine and they had been proved false, in the most public and humiliating of ways.

Juliet will never let me forget this! Her cheeks flamed with heat. Her sister was always lecturing her for thinking too much of her appearance and what had been her constant defence? It will net me a handsome suitor and a wealthy one, so I shall pay my appearance all the attention I care to, thank you very much! How their roles had been reversed! Juliet was the one with the handsome, accomplished, wealthy suitor and she - Louisa - had been utterly abandoned.

“Louisa?”

It took a

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