The Devilish Duke by Michaels Maddison

Author:Michaels, Maddison [Michaels, Maddison]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Entangled, Amara, Historical Romance, Romance, Historical, duke, Victorian Romance, romantic suspense, historical romantic suspense, bad-boy hero, opposites attract, Marriage of Convenience, serial killer suspense
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2018-02-26T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Three

“I am astonished that you are not shackled in leg chains and barred from leaving your home, given your brother’s reaction last night,” Devlin’s deep baritone drawled from the street below.

He strode up the steps to her residence, a wicked grin on his face and looking for all the world as if he had not a care. Even the bruise on his cheek did not detract from his attractiveness.

How the man could look so good after the events from the night before eluded her. She had spent most of the night tossing and turning, unable to stop thinking of him or what had just passed, and had woken up exhausted. Yet here he stood resplendent in perfectly tailored clothing, without a hair out of place. It took her a second to calm the fluttering in her stomach.

Surely this odd reaction she had to him would eventually subside? At least she prayed it would. It was rather annoying.

“What are you doing here?” she demanded as she put on her gloves.

“I thought that rather obvious? Paying my lovely fiancée a visit, especially as it is all official now.” He reached down and placed a kiss on her gloved hand.

She quickly snatched her arm back. “You do not need to kiss my hand every time you see me, you realize?”

“You prefer a kiss on the lips then, my lady?” He appeared to relish the prospect.

“You are incorrigible.” She couldn’t help her eyes from rolling.

He merely laughed. “Only with you, Sophie. Are you heading out then?”

“Yes,” she answered with a nod, beginning to walk down the steps.

“Perhaps I can offer you a ride to your destination?” he said, following her.

“Thank you, but no. Stokes is already seeing that my carriage is brought around.” Devlin wouldn’t be happy if he knew where she was going, and she was in too much of a hurry to argue about it with him.

“But my carriage is right here,” he countered, “and can take you wherever you wish to go.”

“No, thank you,” she declined with a shake of her head. Stubborn man!

“My lady?” Stokes called out from the top of the entrance. “Your aunt has asked that you pass on her best wishes to Lady Crowley and reiterate her sadness over the news.”

Her shoulders tensed as she grimaced, bracing herself for her fiancé’s reaction. “Thank you, Stokes.”

“You are going to the Crowley residence?” Devlin’s voice was suspiciously even.

She chanced a quick look up at him. The easy grin he had been sporting was now gone, replaced with an expression of steely determination, which she did not like one little bit. “Yes, I am going there.”

“To visit Lady Crowley, was it?”

“Um, yes?”

“She is not even in residence at the moment.” His tone was laced with suspicion.

“And how would you know if she is or is not?” Well, there went her assurance to her aunt. And she hadn’t expected him to pay such attention to detail. Though she should have known he would. The Devil Duke didn’t get to where he was without doing so.

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