The Duke of Distraction by Darcy Burke

Author:Darcy Burke [Burke, Darcy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Darcy Burke Publishing
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

The dining room hardly resembled the dining room, what with the table covered in various items, but Felix could think of no better use for the space. He surveyed the collection of bizarre items and waited for his guest to arrive.

A moment later, Sarah entered. “Dovey told me I was needed in the dining room.” She moved toward the table with a look of confusion. “Felix, what is all this?”

“We’re making hats.”

She blinked at him. “With books and baskets and moss and…is that a teacup?”

He clasped his hands behind his back and smiled at her. “It is.”

“I told you I didn’t want to make hats.”

“I’m making hats. But I need a little direction.”

“Felix, you can’t make a hat out of a basket and a teacup.”

He narrowed his eyes at her. “You are not very imaginative. What are hats but overdecorated baskets?”

She stared at him, and he feared his plan was going to fail. He went to pick up a basket and then grabbed a handful of moss, which he’d tasked a footman with collecting. “If you aren’t going to help me, I shall do it on my own.” He moved to the other end of the table and sat down to affix the moss on the basket.

He opened a jar of glue and picked up the brush that sat beside it. Dipping the brush into the adhesive, he used the implement to slather it on the basket. Then he stuck wads of the moss onto the wet glue.

“What on earth are you doing?” she asked, having joined him at the end of the table.

He glanced up at her, encouraged that she’d followed him. “Making a hat.”

“With glue?”

He blinked up at her. “Is there a better way? Perhaps you would like to show me?”

She pursed her lips and narrowed her eyes. “No.”

“I shall continue, then.” Determined to engage her, he got up and fetched a few more items for his basket hat: pigeon feathers, a small fan, and a rosebud.

“Wherever did you find that fan?” she asked as he considered where to attach it.

“No idea. I asked the staff to bring me a variety of things, and this was one of them. I think there’s an old stocking somewhere in the pile.” He set the fan on top of the hat to give it height, but it didn’t look right. Next, he tried putting it on sideways so that it looked like a fin on the side of the hat. “Oh yes, this will do,” he murmured, slapping a dollop of glue onto the basket and then pressing the fan on top of it.

“That looks ridiculous.”

Felix looked up at her in faux innocence. “Does it? And here I was hoping to persuade you to wear it.”

She rolled her eyes. “What is your true intent here?”

“The same as always: to have a good time. Would you rather scowl at my pathetic efforts or join me? I am confident you will create something far finer than I.”

She arched a brow at him. “Is that a challenge?”

Oh yes, this was the Sarah he was hoping to provoke.

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