At the Christmas Wedding by Caroline Linden & Maya Rodale & Katharine Ashe

Author:Caroline Linden & Maya Rodale & Katharine Ashe
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Historical romance
Publisher: The Lady Authors
Published: 2017-10-17T04:00:00+00:00

Having dispensed with Lord Gosling, Grey now had Serena all to himself. It was an easy trick to unite Lady Jane with Lord Gosling (and his funds), thus benefitting war widows, orphans, and himself in one fell swoop.

“I don’t suppose you’ve received word from Frye,” she said straightaway. She cast an anxious glance at the window—the snow was falling heavily, had been for hours, and drifts were piling up. “I daresay he ought to have arrived by now.”

“I haven’t heard from him and for that, and his tardiness, I blame the weather. But fear not, Lady Serena, I’m certain that his arrival is imminent.”

Actually, Grey wasn’t sure of this at all. But he wasn’t too distraught about it either. Frye was a supremely competent and hearty fellow; one generally needn’t fear for his safety. It was clear to him that he would be competing with Lord Gosling for Serena’s attentions. He didn’t need the duke in the mix too.

“I do hope so,” she said softly, revealing that she might indeed have been fantasizing about a reconciliation. This was intriguing. It meant that perhaps she’d held a tendre for the duke after all, when Grey had just assumed that theirs was a match made only on paper by their fathers, years and years ago, and with little consideration for the hearts involved.

“Although it seems he is already too late. It is only the second day of this house party and already you are enamored.”

I see that I am already too late.

“If you can see that, then why did you interrupt?” Serena asked. Her eyes flashed.

Because I want you for myself.

“That is the question, isn’t it? Perhaps I think you can do better.”

At this, Serena sputtered with rage.

“How is this any of your concern whatsoever?”

Because I have always wanted you for myself.

For as long as he had known her, Grey been infatuated with Lady Serena Cavendish, the Perfect English Lady. She was too perfect and elegant for the likes of him—a mere mister who had hustled his way into society by exploiting every opportunity and connection that came his way. A longtime friendship with the Duke of Frye being most helpful. Betraying his friend by secretly lusting and longing for the man’s fiancé was beyond the pale, so his feelings for her were kept tightly under wraps.

And now...the timing was still rubbish.

“I suppose it isn’t my concern,” he said, because what else could he say. But his heart was howling. “But I still wonder if perhaps you might do better.”

“Better than Lord Gosling? Who could be better than he? He is amiable, handsome, in possession of a modest fortune. He is kind to the servants and believes in women’s rights. This afternoon, he ventured out to feed the birds and squirrels because he didn’t want them to go hungry in the storm.”

Hang the birds and the squirrels. They had survived worse without the likes of Lord Gosling flinging bits of seed and grain at them on a blustery afternoon.

Grey wanted to ask her how Gosling made her feel.

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