The Viscount Tastes Like Trouble (Thorns & Temptations Book 1) by Arabella Kent

Author:Arabella Kent [Kent, Arabella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2026-03-03T00:00:00+00:00

That evening, a knock came at the door. Nell looked up from the bread she was wrapping, her brow furrowing in confusion. The shop was closed, the children were already upstairs with Martha, and the streets outside were growing dark.

“I will get it.” Daphne crossed to the door. She pulled it open to reveal a young man in Bramwell Park livery.

“Messages for Mrs. Ashford, Miss Wells, and Miss Finch.” He held out three cream-coloured envelopes, each sealed with heavy black wax. “From Bramwell Park.”

Daphne’s eyebrows shot toward her hairline as she took them, closing the door with the nudge of her hip. She crossed the shop and handed one to Nell, keeping the other two. Nell broke the seal with trembling fingers and unfolded the heavy paper.

Lord Westmore requests the honour of Mrs. Ashford’s company at a ball given in celebration of Lady Catherine Thorne. Friday evening, the 12th of November. Eight o’clock. Bramwell Park.

Daphne was already tearing open her own. “Well.” Daphne looked up from her own invitation, her dark eyes wide. She tapped the paper against her chin. “Lady Philippa invited me specifically. There’s a note. She says she enjoyed our conversation at the tea.”

Nell stared at the elegant script, her mind racing. He’d invited her after everything, yet after she’d refused him. After he’d walked away from her in the street without a backward glance; and why? To torture her? To make her watch him with another woman?

She should refuse.

“You have to go.” Daphne spoke firmly, reading the protest on Nell’s face. She set her invitation on the counter. “We all do.”

Nell shook her head, her jaw tightening. “I most certainly don’t.”

“If you don’t go, everyone will know why.” Daphne crossed her arms, her expression shifting into one of grim practicality. “They will say you are pining. Jealous. They will say you cannot bear to see him with another woman.”

She was jealous. She was desperately, achingly jealous, but no one needed to know that.

“Edmund could take you.” Daphne’s head tilted to the side as she calculated the social move. “Show everyone you’ve moved on as well.”

Moved on. To what? To whom?

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