One-Eyed Dukes Are Wild by Megan Frampton

Author:Megan Frampton [Frampton, Megan]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Historical Romance
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2015-12-27T16:00:00+00:00

A few days later, Margaret had successfully written not one but three installments of her serial, placed the Banner sisters in full-time positions, visited with her sister and niece, won a fair bit of money at a card party at Lord Gantrey’s, and gone over her accounts to gauge just how much she needed for the next six months.

She did not contact the duke. Nor did she go anywhere where she might see him. She didn’t visit the neighborhoods she had promised she wouldn’t visit without him, and she hadn’t sent any kind of suggestion for where they could go adventuring. She hadn’t even gone out to social events where she might run into him.

And that bothered her, quite a lot. Nearly as much as it bothered Annie. As Annie’s question proved.

“What are you doing, hiding away from him like that?”

Margaret had just finished her breakfast, eating without quite realizing she was eating, too engrossed in not thinking about him, not at all, to pay attention. A stack of letters lay to her right, but none had his distinctive handwriting, and she wasn’t certain she would be able to comprehend what was said, given her current state of mind.

Margaret shrugged, unwilling to pretend any longer she wasn’t doing precisely that. And why was she, anyway?

“I don’t know,” she replied, her voice sounding hesitant, nearly fragile. She never sounded that way.

There is a first time for everything, a voice said in her head, from the most divine kiss ever to hiding out because you’re cowardly.

I am not cowardly, another voice said in a forceful way.

Am too.

“Well, it seems to me that you should just go find him and settle whatever it is you have to settle. You never did tell me what happened the last time you saw him,” Annie said with a significant sniff.

“It sounds so simple, when you say it,” Margaret replied.

Annie picked up Margaret’s breakfast dishes—not that Margaret didn’t have staff to clear the table, but Annie always found occasions to do things and fuss around Margaret, even though that wasn’t her job. The clearing the table, not the fussing part. The fussing part was absolutely Annie’s job.

“It is simple.” Annie let out an exasperated sigh and raised her eyes to the ceiling as though having lost patience. No doubt she had. “What is the alternative? You hide out here forever?” She tsked. “The Lady Margaret I know wouldn’t be so craven.”

Oh, that smarted. More so because it was true.

She was being craven. But she was also being protective—she was a good enough writer to forecast what was very likely to happen: She would see him again, she would find herself filled with inappropriate thoughts for him, she might even act upon them, she would get to know him, and then she would eventually fall in love with him, which would even more eventually lead to a broken heart.

She should just cut it off now, while her heart was still intact. No matter how wonderful it had felt

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