Primrose and the Dreadful Duke by Emily Larkin

Author:Emily Larkin
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Emily Larkin

Chapter Twenty

Oliver went to sleep to the sound of rain against the windowpanes—and woke in the morning to silence. He flung back Rhodes’s bedcovers, strode to the window, and jerked the curtains open.

Sunshine flooded into the room.

Oliver felt a surge of grim exultation. Today’s the day.

Someone knocked quietly on the door.

“Who is it?” he called.

“Monsieur Benoît.”

Oliver unlocked the door and opened it.

Benoît brought a ewer of steaming water with him. “How’s Thayne?” Oliver asked, as the valet set the ewer beside the washstand.

“He’s much improved, Your Grace.”

Oliver shaved and dressed hastily, then went next door to see for himself. He found Rhodes going through his wardrobe with Grimshaw.

“Your sleeves are an inch too short,” Rhodes told him.

“Your arms are an inch too long,” Oliver retorted. He stepped closer and examined his friend. “You look a hundred times better.”

“I feel a hundred times better.” The huskiness was gone from Rhodes’s voice and his face was no longer flushed. His eyelids were slightly puffy and his eyes a little bloodshot, but compared to how he’d been yesterday it was nothing.

“Your eyes still itchy?”

“Tiny bit,” Rhodes said. “I’ll keep bathing them. Should be fine by tonight.” He paused. “We are on for tonight, I take it?”

“We’re definitely on,” Oliver said.

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