An Outlawed Heiress and Her Duke by Denise Daye

Author:Denise Daye [Daye, Denise]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-05-30T04:00:00+00:00

Emily was standing by the window, leaning against it with her back. George was looking straight at her, but his mind wandered off yet again to the boy he was so fond of. What the bloody hell was he doing tugging the hair back behind his ear like that? Since he had met Egan that dreadful, cold night in New York, things had progressively turned more awkward between them. Or to be more precise, not between the two but with George, as poor Egan had most likely no idea what was going on here. But George didn’t either. Was he attracted to his own sex all of a sudden? Had stress pushed him over the edge of the truth of who he really was? Was that the reason why he had never fallen in love and gotten married? No. That couldn’t be. His past was full of occasions, especially when he was young and more foolish than wise, in which he had felt sexually attracted to women, and not once to a man. But whatever he felt when he was looking into those loyal, adventurous brown eyes was definitely more than just some simple friendship. He was old and experienced enough to know the difference. Deep in thought, George was walking over to the whiskey tray. Suddenly he remembered that Emily was with him. He turned toward her, but she seemed lost in her own thoughts.

“May I offer you a drink?” he asked, picking up one of the bottles, snapping her right out of wherever her own mind had just wandered off to.

“No, it won’t take long,” she said pulling something out of her little purse. She held it inside her palm without handing it to George just yet. “I will get straight to the point.” She smiled nervously, her beautiful red lips revealing her perfect, white teeth.

George had laid eyes on her many times, but he was always surprised at her beauty every time he saw her again. Was that not a good sign, proof he was still the same George who was looking for love with a woman? “How can I be of service?” he asked to jumpstart the conversation.

Emily looked down onto the piece of paper in her hand, which seemed to help her relax her tense shoulders.

“I… I know I seem very confident and entitled at times,” she said, still staring down onto her hand, “but there is more to me than looks.”

She now had his full attention as he knew exactly where this conversation was heading. Too many times he had been asked by a woman, or her mother, to have a word in private.

“Emily—”

“Please let me speak my mind,” she interrupted him, now focusing her arctic blue eyes on his. George nodded.

“I overheard the gossip in New York that you are from one of the most respectable and oldest noble houses in Europe.” There was nothing George would have liked better in this moment than to stop her right there, but he was too much of a gentleman to do so.

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