Charming and Just a Bit Disarming by Catherine Gayle

Author:Catherine Gayle [Gayle, Catherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Historical Romance
Publisher: Night Shift Publishing
Published: 2016-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

The tingles hadn’t ceased, or even slowed. If anything, they’d increased in pace. Georgie walked alongside Pippa, with Harry accompanying them, toward their supper box. The whole time, she remained in utter amazement that the entire world wasn’t feeling the same sense of awe and trepidation she was experiencing right then.

But then Pippa stopped, bring Georgie back to the here and now.

“What is it?” Harry asked.

Pippa pinched her eyebrows together and shook her head. “I just want to explore a bit. I don’t want to find our seats quite yet.”

“We’re already late.” Harry glowered at his sister. “I am meeting…someone, and I just want to see you settled before I go.” He caught Georgie’s eye for a brief moment, and she bit her lip. Then he looked away.

“Very well,” Pippa agreed in a far too conciliatory tone.

Did she believe he was off to an illicit tryst, as he’d planned? Why was she giving in to him so easily? Georgie looked over at her friend, who merely shrugged in response. This was all coming together far too easily. She could only hope that escaping from Pippa would be as easy as avoiding Monty had been. He had no idea at all that she was at Vauxhall. In fact, he thought that she and her entire family had stayed home for the night.

Harry led them to the supper boxes. Lord and Lady Heathfield looked over at them from their own box as they entered, and Pippa blushed to a furious shade of red…no doubt thinking of the scene she’d been involved in during their ball.

“Here we are.” Harry waved his arm for Pippa and Georgie to enter one of the boxes. “Sit down. I’ll be back…soon.” With that, he rushed off through the throng. He glanced back once and made eye contact with Georgie, likely making certain she’d noted the direction he’d gone.

“Where do you suppose he’s headed?” Georgie asked for lack of any better conversational topics. She knew, but she wanted to be certain that Pippa did not.

“To some clandestine meeting, I’d guess. Berks informed me tonight that Harry is a wolf. I had no idea.”

Georgie had to force herself not to blink in a daze at the wolf comment, as she’d recently had a discussion with none other than Harry about wolves. How very odd. She mentally shook the thought from her head. “And you thought if you went along with his plan of sitting in the box, that we’d do what we liked after he departed?” Please, God, let that be Pippa’s plan. Then everything would go smoothly tonight.

A wide grin stole over Pippa’s face. “You really do know me very well.”

Georgie pursed her lips and nodded. Of course she did. She knew almost everything very well, whether she wanted to or not. “So what do you want to see? The Indian temples? The spring gardens?” She made a point of not mentioning the Chinese pavilion.

“Let’s just head back the way we came.”

And so they did. After they exited

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