The Reluctant Reformer by Lynsay Sands

Author:Lynsay Sands
Language: eng
Format: mobi, azw3, epub, pdf
Published: 2011-11-25T23:57:30+00:00

“I am not sure,” she admitted slowly. “It was at one of the gaming hells, I think.”

He nodded, as if he had expected that answer, and she saw he was putting two and two together. From the look on his face, he was coming up with his own version of four. James certainly seemed to like to think the worst of her. First she was a prostitute, and now she was the sort to engender murder in the heart of some nasty scarred man.

Maggie scowled at him. Meeks’s tincture was taking effect already, the ache in her head slowly receding, but unfortunately her irritation with the know-it-all before her was rising. What the devil was Lord Ramsey doing here, anyway? This was supposed to be a ladies’ tea. And he was definitely no lady—the proof of which had been pressed against her quite intimately in his library in the country.

Grimacing at her thoughts, she turned abruptly to the butler. “Could you ask Lady Barlow to join us for a moment?”

Meeks turned a blank expression to her. “Lady Barlow?” he echoed.

“Aye. I should like to offer my apologies for having to miss her tea party before I leave.”

“Tea party?” the man murmured, obviously at a loss.

“It is all right, Meeks. You may get back to your duties,” Lord Ramsey butted in.

Maggie turned from the confused man to James, but waited until the servant had left before speaking again. “Lord Ramsey,” she said shortly. “Where is your aunt?”

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