Remember Me by Mary Balogh

Author:Mary Balogh [Balogh, Mary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2023-06-20T00:00:00+00:00

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A veritable storm of conflicting thoughts and emotions had kept Philippa tossing and turning on her bed throughout the night. She would have sworn she had not slept at all if she had not kept remembering bizarre events that had certainly not happened to her waking self. A dozen or more times during the night she had made the definite decision not to see the Marquess of Roath today when he came to Stratton House. And a dozen or more times she had decided that yes, she would. She would put an end to this . . . this thing once and for all. She could not think of another word by which to call it. Obsession, maybe? But that was far too exaggerated.

She had been horrified to see him again a couple of weeks ago. He had been equally aghast when he had realized who she was and what she had once overheard him say of her. He was the last man on earth she could ever think of marrying, she had told herself repeatedly. Yet she was doing just that. She was the last woman on earth he would ever dream of marrying. Yet he was coming to Stratton House on a formal call, presumably to make her an offer.

The autocratic nature of the Duke of Wilby was no excuse for either of them, especially her. They were thinking, reasonably intelligent adults, she and the Marquess of Roath. If he must marry and she wished to marry, there was no reason on earth why it should be to each other. He was extremely eligible, probably more so than any other single gentleman in London this spring. The same might be said of her among the ladies, though there was that duke’s daughter, Lady Morgan Bedwyn. Why did the Duke of Wilby not insist that he marry her? The success of her own debut had assured Philippa that she would almost certainly have marriage offers, some of them eligible, one or two of them—surely—attractive to her.

But the marquess was coming to confer with Devlin, to make an offer for her hand—though Dev had suggested that he kill him for her instead. Not quite literally, of course, but as near as he lawfully could. At the very least he had wanted to send the Marquess of Roath on his way with a flea in his ear and perhaps a boot to his backside.

She had told him that no, it would not do. She would not have her brother fight her battles, literally or otherwise. She had a few things of her own to say to Lord Roath before she sent him away. She would make it clear to him that he must never come back, never again broach the subject of marriage with her, never deliberately seek her out at any social event they were both attending. And this time she would make it clear that she meant it. If necessary, she would have a similar conversation with the Duke of Wilby.

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