It's Only a Scandal If You're Caught by Merry Farmer

Author:Merry Farmer [Farmer, Merry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Merry Farmer

Chapter 12

The sure and certain knowledge that Lord Malcolm Campbell was plotting against him was enough to make any man tremble in his boots and look over his shoulder every three seconds. Jack was no exception. After the telling off and the threats he and Bianca had received a few days before, he’d lived in a constant state of high alert. It was wearing on his nerves.

His presence had been demanded at the Campbell household for supper every night since that wretched day. He’d been introduced to a string of hard-faced noblemen and women of Lord Malcolm and Lady Katya’s acquaintance with titles like Lord Helm and Lord Gatwick, not to mention the Home Secretary, Mr. Alex Croydon, and his wife, that made his head spin. He’d even been dragged away from his desk at Scotland Yard in the middle of the afternoon to sit through an interminable tea party at Mrs. Croydon’s house where he was thoroughly scrutinized by what felt like half the matrons of the aristocracy. They’d clearly found him to be as distasteful as if Lady Katya had invited the urchin he’d been to soil their settees, but at least he’d been able to stand by Bianca’s side, holding her arm in support. Even though she was still spitting mad at him.

And she was furious with him. That much was clear from the way she hadn’t said more than two words together to him since their haphazard engagement. She blamed him for everything, he knew. He blamed himself. If he hadn’t been so hot to get her in bed, if he hadn’t been an animal once he had her there, he might have stopped to think, might have held her at arm’s length a little longer. Or at least he might have purchased a French letter or two to delay the inevitable.

But it was too late now. Bianca was carrying his child. Lady Katya had consented to their marriage. And Lord Malcolm was about to have him assassinated, as likely as not. But Jack still had work to do.

“Poole. I want you to make a list of all the warehouses along the Thames that we haven’t searched yet,” he said, voice booming more than usual in order to make up for the snakes in his gut, all of which bore Lord Malcolm’s head. “We’ll get permission for a raid if we have to, but I need to find out who—”

“We’ve got bigger problems than that,” Poole said, rushing toward Jack from the far end of the main office as Jack made his way across. Poole blocked him from continuing down the hall toward his private office. “I found out the date, sir,” he said, eyes bright with excitement.

“The date for what?” Poole’s excitement was contagious, and for the first time in days, Jack’s heart pounded over something other than the imminent loss of his balls at Lord Malcolm’s hands.

“The attack, sir,” Poole went on, lowering his voice and practically hopping up and down in excitement. “I

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