Lady, Be Wanton (Naughty Ladies Book 1) by Cerise Deland

Author:Cerise Deland [Deland, Cerise]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Historical, Romance
Publisher: Dragonblade Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2022-03-08T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

She swayed toward Lex, the heap of her attacker at her feet. “Thank you. He needed that.”

Lex caught her to him, his arms binding her tightly, his lips to her hair. “He needs to be thrown to the street.”

She gulped, shattered, yet again avenged on Wye. But now, safer with Lex than she had ever been with anyone. “How can he hate me so fiercely?”

“His nature is that.”

She pushed away and cradled Lex’s hand he had used to knock Wye to the floor. “You’re hurt.”

He flinched at her touch. “I’ll heal.”

“I hope and quickly, too.” She kissed his fingertips.

“Let me help you.” He reached to lift the tattered shoulder of her gown.

She clutched the pretty apple-green silk to her breast and whimpered, though she hated to. “I wonder how I’m going to make it to the street. Would you find my cousin Cass for me, please?”

He clutched her shoulders. “We’ll go out through the kitchen door. Never to fret on that. Let me look at you. Are you all right? What did he do?”

She trembled and sought his embrace once more. Her cheek to his broad shoulder, she sniffed. “He made terrible accusations.”

Wye stirred, trying once and twice to push up but too dizzy to gain traction. “She…she bit me!”

Imogen wiggled her brows at Lex. “A girl has to have an arsenal at the ready.”

He chuckled but checked her face and form for damage.

“I’m fine, really I am.”

Wye hoisted himself up, one hand to the mattress. “You bitch.”

“Now, now, Wye,” she scolded him. “I didn’t call you names.”

“Wait ’til I get through with you, you’ll have more names.”

Lex stood her securely against the wall and grabbed up Wye by his frock coat. “Get out.”

“Here, here.” Lord Carstairs rushed into the open door, his wife and two footmen crowding in behind him. “What is going on here? You’ve invaded our private rooms!”

“Indeed, sir,” said Imogen. “Lord Wye forced me in here.”

Wye cradled his abused jaw. “She lured me. Him, too.” He pointed to Lex.

“The man,” Lex said with deadly intent, “is a liar. He had assaulted this lady who merely wished to retire to the ladies’ room next door.”

“I was saving her from the attack of this brute!” Wye wailed.

“You tore my gown,” she accused Wye, her voice strong but filled with fresh hot tears.

Lady Carstairs rushed in and gasped. “What is amiss here?”

Behind her came two other ladies, one of whom was the notorious Brighton gossip, the Countess of Huntington. Imogen’s heart dropped to her feet. News of this fiasco would spread like wildfire. She was really done in. Her sisters, too. Oh, this was a disaster. No man would ever want a scandalous granddaughter of the Earl of Barry.

Cass squeezed past the growing crowd that filled the doorway. A giant of a creature in his regimentals strode right behind her.

“My dear Imogen! What’s happened?” At sight of Imogen’s gown, Cass shrugged off her shawl and dropped it over Imogen. “This is horrid. Who has done this to you?”

“Lord Wye, ma’am,” she told her cousin.

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