Her Unlikly Hero by Ginny Hartman

Author:Ginny Hartman
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2015-04-22T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Adel pulled the curtains closed the minute she got into the carriage, her anger giving away to humiliated tears as she thought back to the tender feelings she had begun to harbor for Lord Straton, but that was over now. Their friendship was ruined, and the thought of showing her face in society only deepened her humiliation. Had Lord Straton’s friends been watching her the last several weeks, laughing at his pathetic attempts to court her? And what of Lady Danford? She had thought her a friend of sorts, never once suspecting that she could have ulterior motives behind her politeness. Adel felt betrayed.

It took her several minutes to compose herself enough to alight from the carriage and enter the townhouse once she had arrived home. She said a silent prayer of gratitude when she learned that Aunt Tabitha and Katherine were not yet back from their shopping excursion.

She hurried to her room and quickly dismissed her maid after letting her take her pelisse and bonnet, even going as far as to lock the door behind her to assure her privacy. Sitting down at her writing desk she noticed a blank white envelope. She broke the seal and slid her payment from the envelope before walking to the fireplace and throwing the letter into the low burning flames without even reading the note from Mr. Bell.

Returning to her desk, she took out a piece of parchment and wrote:

Rose,

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