Notorious Lord, Compromised Miss by Annie Burrows

Author:Annie Burrows [Annie Burrows]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9781408912379
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2008-10-10T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 3

Katherine leapt to her feet, causing the shredded paper to flutter to the floor like a cloud of confetti.

And as her eyes were drawn to the remains of Acton’s list, she saw the whole scene in an entirely different light.

She had thought Viscount Maldon had come to care for her so much he could no longer contain himself. She thought he had been as carried away by his feelings as she.

Instead, this whole evening had been a piece of cold calculation on his part.

He had admitted he had heard gossip at his club about other heiresses. He had mentioned the name of another girl whose money came from trade, but had entirely glossed over the part where he had learned of the wealth she had been desperately trying to downplay ever since arriving in London. Taking advantage of what she had looked upon as a friendship, he had lured her to a spot that was the perfect backdrop against which to carry on a spot of seduction, and sneakily coaxed her most intimate secret from her. She rounded on him, fists clenched at her sides. “I really do hate you.”

Making sure it was her aunts that discovered them in that clinch had been a masterstroke on his part. He knew her so well! She would never risk upsetting them by trying to wriggle out of this engagement. She would never expose them to the public censure that would ensue if this snake at her side were to tell the world that her oh-so-respectable aunts had taken a fallen woman into Almack’s and tried to foist her onto the ton as a decent, marriageable woman!

“To think I trusted you with my deepest secrets! And this is how you repay me!”

She could not bear to remain a moment longer in his company. Uttering an incoherent cry, she dashed towards the exit.

“Katherine, don’t be like this!”

It was the note of exasperation in his voice, when she needed to hear contrition, that tipped her over the edge. Seizing the nearest plant pot, she turned round and hurled it at him. It struck one of the iron pillars that supported the roof, shattering, and showering him with finely sifted loam. She froze, stunned that it had gone anywhere near him. Her eyes had been too full of tears to have made the effort of taking aim anything but a waste of time.

“I will call on you tomorrow then,” he infuriated her further by saying calmly, as he began brushing earth and clumps of roots from his waistcoat, “when you have had time to…”

His words were lost in the sound of the glass doors slamming shut behind her.

Left in the darkness, Viscount Maldon sat down, removed his shoes and tipped the soil out into the greenery behind the bench.

What a mess!

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