My Naughty Minette (Properly Spanked Book 3) by Annabel Joseph

Author:Annabel Joseph [Joseph, Annabel]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance
Publisher: Scarlet Rose Press
Published: 2015-01-15T23:00:00+00:00

August didn’t dare return to Barrymore House—and Minette—in his current mood. So Esme had cut him off, had she? And it was entirely his wife’s fault.

By God, he’d like to spank Minette until she couldn’t sit down. Perhaps he would, next time he saw her, which was another reason not to return right away. Husbands shouldn’t spank wives. Wasn’t that what she’d yelled at him in one of her tempers? It was awfully hard not to take out his frustrations on her bottom when she was ruining every aspect of his life.

He considered going to the gentlemen’s club, but when he was there everyone always asked after his father. Worse, Colton might be there, scowling at August and muttering words of condemnation in any available ear. He went instead to Townsend’s, and found his friend at home. The butler led him to the grand parlor, a study in marble and damask with a roaring fire. As soon as he was announced, Townsend strode over to greet him at the door. “August, how wonderful to see you. Is everything all right, man? You look put out.”

August stifled a sigh. “Remember when Lansing cut you off from all your women? After you married Aurelia? I’ve just been to see Esme—”

“I should have told you,” Townsend interrupted. “Warren and Arlington are here too.”

His friend—ex-friend?—Warren shot to his feet on the other side of the room. “You went to see Esmeralda?” he asked.

“To return the books,” August said quickly. “And to ask her not to meet again with Minette.”

“Esmeralda met with Minette?” The Duke of Arlington’s brows rose as he stretched out his long legs. “I’ve got to hear this story.”

“Minette is here too, by the way,” Townsend said. “She came with Warren and Josephine. The ladies are sitting by the fire in the library, talking about babies and nurseries, I suppose. Shall I send for them?”

“No,” said the other three gentlemen. August scowled at Warren while Arlington asked again about Esme and Minette.

“Are the two of them fighting over you?” jested the golden-haired duke. Easy for him to joke, when he was the only one still unfettered by the bonds of matrimony.

August flung himself in a chair, feeling supremely out of sorts. “They’re not fighting over me. If you must know, Esme has cut me off indefinitely.”

“Good,” Warren said.

“But how did Esme make Minette’s acquaintance?” asked Arlington.

“She didn’t,” August said. “Minette went in secret to see Esme because she’d overheard someone, probably one of you, talking about our relationship over the years. She went to Esme to ask for...marital advice.”

Townsend stifled a laugh. “And Esme gave her books?”

“Which were delivered to my neighbor’s house in error,” said August. “The garishly illustrated volumes were very nearly passed along to his youngest daughter. Needless to say, the man was not pleased.”

Arlington and Townsend looked half amused, half horrified. Warren looked irate. “I don’t care how Minette found out about you and Esme,” he said. “I don’t want her over there, and I don’t want you over there either.

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