No Marriage of Convenience by Elizabeth Boyle

Author:Elizabeth Boyle [Boyle, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Tags: Contemporary, Fiction, Romance, General
ISBN: 9780380815340
Publisher: Avon
Published: 2000-02-14T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

“O h, Mason,” Cousin Felicity wailed as she burst into his study. “I had nothing to do with this! Nothing!”

The total of the long column of numbers he had almost finished tallying slipped away, fleeing his mind as if frightened away by Cousin Felicity’s histrionics.

He buried his face in his hands and shook his head. This was what he got for thinking he could take control of his life.

“Oh, Mason,” she wailed. “This is a disaster.”

He sighed. Now what?

Cousin Felicity rushed to his side, handkerchief in hand. “What could I do?” she whispered. She glanced at the door, her fingers plucking at the linen square. “She came to call. I couldn’t have Belton send her away—especially since she came with him, and now what are we to do with them?”

Mason was afraid to ask. “Who came, Cousin?”

“Lord Ashlin,” an imperious voice called from the foyer below. “Where are your manners? One does not keep a lady of my advanced age idling about one’s foyer like some tradesman.”

Mason cringed at each strident note.

Cousin Felicity had been right to act as if the French were landing. For if the French rabble ever dared cross the Channel and storm the British shores, England had one thing not even they would dare cross.

Lady Delander.

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