An Accidental Elopement by Emilie Jacobsen

Author:Emilie Jacobsen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Regency Romance, Steamy Regency Romance, Georgian Romance, Victorian Romance, Friends to lovers, Rakes, Elopement
Publisher: Emilie Jacobsen
Published: 2023-12-01T00:00:00+00:00

Fifteen

Despite their talk the previous night, Cecilia had expected Archie to knock on her door the next morning and for them to head down to breakfast together. He often rose late and since she had been up half the night thinking over their conversation from yesterday so had she today.

But after having been ready for a quarter hour, she gently knocked on Archie’s door, only to find that the sole occupant of his room was his valet, Peters. With one of Archie’s coats in his hand, Peters told her that Archie had gone to breakfast a couple of hours ago, then had come back to change into his riding attire.

Cecilia thanked him and embarked on the long walk to the morning room. She tried to reason with herself that this was not a betrayal on Archie’s part, even though it felt like it. His family was her family now as well and she had every right to be here.

Despite her own talk she still felt a bit hesitant about entering the morning room. As it turned out only Millie, Hester and Edwina was there. She greeted them in a subdued voice to not interrupt their conversation and immediately went to the buffet to fill her plate. Having slept so late, she was ravenously hungry.

Millie indicated the seat next to her with a smile. Cecilia sat down and started eating as she listened to their conversation.

“He has kept us up most of the night. I’m surprised Henry had the energy to go riding this morning,” Edwina told them and stifled a yawn behind her hand. Cecilia assumed that she was talking about her infant son. "I don’t understand how you managed it six times, Millie,” she said in a familiar tone that showed that the two women knew each other well.

As the future heir, Henry and his family lived in Camborne House in London along with the Duke and Duchess. Or Millie and Charles as they had requested that Cecilia called them.

“Well, I had a nurse who stayed with them during the night,” Millie answered and looked a bit put out by this. “That was how it was done back then,” she said as if she needed to defend herself.

Truth be told, not all women – or men – wanted their infant children in the bedroom like Edwina and Henry did. Cecilia admired Edwina’s approach to bringing up her children herself. It could be due to Edwina's unconventional upbringing. Her father might be an earl, but her mother was a former courtesan that had grown up in the East End.

“I think I would still prefer a wetnurse,” Hester chimed in. “Not sleeping through the night through years on end sounds positively maddening.”

Cecilia would have thought that this put Edwina off, but the tall, brown-haired woman only laughed.

“Well, having children is positively maddening. It has happened more than once that I cannot remember whether I have cleaned my teeth in the morning. And I have been late for dinner on more than

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