Charming a Spy by Chance Elizabeth

Author:Chance, Elizabeth [Chance, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction
Publisher: Elizabeth Chance
Published: 2015-01-08T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

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Unfortunately, getting time with Geoff before anything could change his mind was proving difficult. He completely disappeared after the picnic. At dinner that night, Kat was again seated at the opposite end of the table. She couldn’t help but wonder if he arranged the table seating assignments purposely. Maybe Rafe already talked to him and said something about their fight yesterday. Maybe he already convinced Geoff that Kat came onto him.

Or perhaps Geoff was trying to be discreet. He and Kat should be careful about how much they spoke with one another in public, lest others think she was actually in the running for the next duchess. He couldn’t be seen to be favoring her if at the end of the week he asked for Jessica’s hand.

Still, today was the day he promised to start helping her find Luke. She didn’t know how he intended to fulfill his promise if they didn’t have the opportunity to even speak to one another.

After dinner, the ladies decided to entertain the group with an impromptu musicale, or rather Mrs. Grier decided for everyone. Kat could see clearly that Jessica and Rafe inherited their pushiness from their mother. All of the ladies were expected to perform their musical talent for the duke. Luckily, Kat didn’t have one so she was able to sit and brood quietly during the other performances.

She still couldn’t get past what had happened at the picnic. Was it possible she accidentally had given Rafe mixed signals? Bollocks. Maybe she did. She did wear a scandalous dress (even though it wasn’t for him.) And she had approached him directly to engage in conversation.

But it wasn’t as if the conversation was intimate. They talked about Luke. In fact, it was downright awkward. She all but brought on his past war trauma the night before with her insipid questions. He couldn’t possibly interpret conversation as flirtation, could he? This seduction business was incredibly complicated.

What was even more infuriating was that he was the only person who definitely saw Luke in battle firsthand, yet now her chances of getting any real information from him were even slimmer. Talking to Rafe meant she would have to be near to him and she honestly never wanted to be in reaching range of him again.

Maybe she didn’t need his information anyway. Geoff was going to find Luke. She knew it. Well, if she ever got the chance to talk to the man. Kat watched him, pouring Jane a glass of punch on the other side of the room. Jane was a vision of loveliness in a pale blue chiffon dress, beaded with tiny pearls. Her blonde hair was pulled into a beautiful chignon, several ringlets falling free around her face. If Kat squinted, Jane looked exactly like one of the goddesses painted on the ceiling of the duke’s foyer, only with slightly more clothing on. Perhaps Geoff would marry her instead of Jessica. At least then she could maintain a modicum of respect for him.

He laughed out loud at something she said.

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