The Lady and Her Secret Lover by Jenn LeBlanc

Author:Jenn LeBlanc [LeBlanc, Jenn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781944567323
Publisher: Illustrated Romance
Published: 2019-05-07T04:00:00+00:00

Ellie

Ellie stood in the park outside Pembroke House wishing they were less careful about their privacy. One of the largest private residences in London, the house was massive, taking up most of the west side of the park. And all of the curtains were drawn. She’d wandered around to the mews as well, to find that the house had wings that extended far into the gardens, but she couldn’t see much more than the upper floors and the rooftops.

She shouldn’t be back here. If someone saw her, it would end very badly. Ladies didn’t belong wandering the mews of London. She kept the hood of her cape low on her brow, hiding as much as she could, and searched for something she could stand on to get a better view when a carriage rumbled through the mews and the stable door swung wide.

Ellie hid behind the door, out of the way as the men unhitched the horses from the large carriage. She leaned back against the brick mews, closing her eyes and allowing the sounds of the tack and stomping hooves to settle her nerves.

What was she doing? This was insanity. If someone discovered her they’d…well…they’d either ruin her in society or something much worse, where society’s opinions would no longer matter to her.

She heard the driver and stable hands yelling as the horses were managed. The carriage was left there, half in and half out of the stable doors, the wheels grinding rock and dirt as they shifted it. She opened her eyes and waited to be discovered when a hand wrapped around the door to close it, but then someone called and the hand disappeared. She peeked out.

She’d gone from a terrible situation to a horrible one in the span of a breath but she couldn’t help herself. She walked through the stables, head down, her black cloak as deep as the shadows around her swishing over her toes. When she got to the garden wall, she pushed the latch on the gate and pulled it open, slipping into the back gardens and pulling it closed.

What was she doing? She was supposed to be sleeping. She was supposed to be home. She wasn’t supposed to be breaking into the gardens of a powerful duke. But if there were any chance that Louisa was here… She stopped and inspected the manicured paths, the shaped hedges and trimmed rosebushes looming in the dark like tangled claws. It was a nice garden, but it wasn’t particularly a welcoming one. She ran down the path to a small trellis covered with vines and hid herself there.

She should leave. She should go back to the stables and slink her way back through the mews and back home before she was discovered. She peered around the corner column and up the brick of the house where here, the windows were shrouded by georgette as opposed to heavy brocades one could not see through. Somewhere in that house was her Lou. Maybe. Hopefully. Oh, how she wished.

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