The Doctor and the Libertine: The Merry Misfits of Bath - Book Five by Hutton Callie

Author:Hutton, Callie
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-08-10T16:00:00+00:00

Edwin allowed the man at the door of the Bath and County Club to assist him out of his coat. It had been a while since he’d visited the place. He used to spend hours and hundreds of pounds in the club, playing cards, drinking, and placing ridiculous bets in the betting book.

He cringed remembering one time after he was well into his cups that he bet Brennan how long it would take for a drop of rain to slide down the windowpane. Such foolishness.

Then, after a few hours of money and time wasted, he and his friends either visited a brothel, a mistress, or performed some outlandish public display of idiocy that invariably ended up in the newspapers.

Now, it all seemed so childish and useless. Had it only been three weeks since the race that ended with him flat on his back and staring up at the most beautiful doctor he’d ever seen in his life?

He felt as though a lifetime had passed. Aside from the one time Brennan and Manchester had visited him in the infirmary and were relieved of their flasks, he hadn’t seen his friends much at all.

Twice they called at his house, but once the fog of alcohol had cleared from his body and brain, he found his innate curiosity and neglected intellect rise again and he began raiding his library for books to read. And not just medical books.

He had his housekeeper remove all the brandy from the house and found the hardest part of being sober all the time was missing the habit of drinking away his guilt over his sister. But then, that was what had started him on his road to destruction three years before.

“Coffee, please,” he said to the footman who approached him with a bottle of brandy in his hand.

“Very good, my lord.” He turned back nary a flicker of surprise in his eyes, which surprised Edwin more.

He was perusing the newspaper and sipping on his coffee when Brennan and Manchester barged through the door and headed straight for him.

“What’s this?” Manchester’s brows were almost hidden by the few strands of hair on his forehead. He waved at Edwin’s coffee cup.

Deciding to face the two men head on, he said, “Coffee. Now my beverage of choice.”

They both waved at the footman to bring them brandy and laughed so hard they were doubled over, pushing at each other like youths barely out of university. Apparently, they had already begun their evening of carousing.

Brennan took a glass from the tray the footman held and poured brandy into it. “Here, you don’t want coffee to rot your stomach.” His smiled faded when Edwin didn’t take the glass and shook his head. “No. Thank you anyway.”

Manchester and Brennan looked at each other with a combination of surprise and anger. “What are you about, Sterling?”

Edwin shrugged. “Nothing. Since I was forced to forego my brandy while in the infirmary, I find I feel much better without it.”

“It’s that sour doctor, isn’t it?” Brennan said and gulped his drink.

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