Charming the Vicar's Daughter by Aileen Fish

Author:Aileen Fish [Fish, Aileen]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
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Publisher: Aileen Fish
Published: 2013-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

Neil studied the cards he’d been dealt as he sat in the card room of Boodle’s gentlemen’s club in London. His two cards added up to nineteen, so the chances were small of anyone else at the table getting closer to twenty-one.

The odds were much better than those against him being able to forget Miss Cookson any time soon. Even the pips on the nine card in his hand kept blurring and resembling the freckles across the lady’s nose.

In the two weeks since he’d seen her, he’d taken his curricle out to Richmond Park in Surrey to outrun the visions of the vicar’s daughter as she stood waiting for her turn to dance, or laughing with Neil’s cousins as they talked. His horses couldn’t run fast enough.

Neil lost more than he won in the card room, a result of being unable to concentrate on the game at hand. He’d taken to limiting his time there, to keep from needed an advance on his quarterly allowance.

The final straw came when he grabbed the arm of a young woman as she entered a linen drapers’ shop. “Miss Cookson, I am overjoyed to see you!”

The woman in question was not Miss Cookson, as he should have known, had he been thinking clearly, and she was quite put out at his assault on her person. Her husband, who’d witnessed the incident from the street beside their carriage, was even more so, and gave Neil a black eye to express his feelings.

Pressing his fingertips to the tender flesh below his left eye, Neil groaned when another player revealed the ace dealt upon his ten. Slapping his own cards onto the felt tabletop, Neil shoved away from the table. The time had come to put an end to his woolgathering once and for all.

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