The Switch by Emma Wildes

Author:Emma Wildes
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: Romance, Historical, Fiction
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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When he got a chance to wrap his hands around his brother's neck, he was going to enjoy strangling him.

Adam sprawled on the seat of the carriage, his long legs extended, a harsh throbbing in his hip indicating he wasn't quite ready yet for romantic waltzes, which was another thing his brother had gotten to enjoy with his beautiful young wife before him.

Damn Alex to hell.

"It's an unnaturally warm evening," Jacqueline murmured, sitting almost primly across from him, her face still a trifle 91

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pale. "Perhaps that's why I so suddenly felt ill. Thank you for leaving early."

"Darling, don't be ridiculous. There is no need to thank me, your well-being is paramount."

Her eyes, so intensely lovely and silver in the dim light of the lantern, looked enormous, framed by long, thick lashes.

In a dark blue gown that contrasted with her ivory skin and set off the ruby glints in her lustrous hair, she looked like a dream come true, so breathtaking that he had to keep himself from reaching across the carriage and taking her into his arms. The neckline was hardly immodest, but evocative enough that the firm upper curves of her tempting breasts had drawn the eye of more than one man at the ball, which he didn't mind until Alex had arrived.

His brother could usually hold his liquor with amazing resilience, and Adam had only seen him truly drunk once or twice, but he had been on the edge tonight. Short of public refusal, he couldn't keep his wife and brother from dancing, but he'd known it was a bad idea the moment he'd seen that half-defiant and carelessly insolent look on his twin's face. It was an expression he recognized, and usually spelled some kind of trouble.

Watching that waltz had been a lesson in self-restraint, especially since Alex had brazenly held Jacqueline too close for propriety, the two of them striking and well-noticed as they moved, her spectacular coloring and alluring beauty a foil for his brother's rakish good looks. Adam had caught more than a few speculative glances and arched brows as the dance continued, and it was probably just as well that Jackie 92

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had felt faint and requested they go home. Luckily, she seemed a little better now, though she had definitely been trembling when he handed her into the carriage.

"It would be best, I think, if you go straight up to bed," he suggested gently, "and get a good night's sleep. You were up far too long last eve," he managed to not stumble as he said the words and kept his expression neutral, "and that coupled with the oppressive temperature of the ballroom is no doubt the culprit."

"Perhaps." She gazed at him, her eyes half-veiled by those thick lashes. "What about you ... you rose before me. Are you tired, my Lord?"

Grateful to feel they were slowing down and approaching the mansion, Adam said smoothly, "I am a little more accustomed to late nights and early mornings.

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