Georgina Devon by The Rake

Author:The Rake [Rake, The]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Sebastian sauntered into White’s, his demeanour at odds with the anger coursing through him. He looked around the heavily panelled room, taking in the regulars: Alvanley, Holland, and others. Slowly the relaxed atmosphere sank into him.

‘That is much better,’ Ravensford said. ‘For a while I thought you were going to explode like one of Vauxhall’s fireworks.’

‘Those old crows and their simpering daughters are more than I can take at times.’

‘Stifling,’ Ravensford agreed.

The two men moved to a table where whist was being played and port consumed with a determination that was hard to match. One of the players glanced up. A worried look came over his face when he saw Sebastian.

‘What’s bothering you, Durkin, losing again?’ Ravensford asked with a grin.

Durkin shook his head and gulped down the ruby wine in his glass, poured another and gulped that too. ‘Nothing so harmless.’

Sebastian gazed down at the man whose sandy hair and blue eyes seemed to glint in the candlelight. The two of them had gone to school together and, while they were not the best of cronies, they still liked each other. Durkin’s edginess meant something was not right.

‘What do you know that we don’t, Durk?’ he asked, using their old school name for the other man.

Durkin ran long fingers through his already mussed hair and glanced warily at his partner, who nodded back at him.

‘Best tell him now,’ Salter said, his brown eyes looking as worried as Durkin’s. ‘The devil will be in the fat no matter what.’

Sebastian stiffened. There was only one topic that had ever made him lose his temper to the degree that his friends were indicating would happen here. His mother and her infidelities.

‘What is it?’ he demanded, his voice harsh.

‘The betting book. Best look at it.’

Sebastian looked from one to the other and nodded curtly. In two strides he had the infamous book. He flipped it to the last page with writing and read the content. When will a particular Duke tire of the lovely Miss S-C so that someone else may have a go with her?

He slammed the book shut. His eyes narrowed to slits of blue fire as he looked slowly around the room. Most of the occupants met his gaze, a few looked away. Without a word he left, Ravensford rushing to keep up with him.

Enraged, Sebastian was glad he had sent his coach home. He needed to walk. The cool summer night air felt good.

‘Bad business, that,’ Ravensford said, keeping pace.

‘It will be a deadly business if I learn who wrote it,’ Sebastian vowed.

Ravensford glanced curiously at his friend. ‘The chit is nothing to you that you need fight a duel over her honour.’

Sebastian blew out a breath and stopped. He turned to look at the other man. ‘Not right now.’

Ravensford quirked one bronze brow but said nothing, waiting patiently.

‘I have resisted the inevitable. Prinny ordered me to marry the girl. You even said I should do the honourable, even though it was none of my doing that brought her into my home.

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