What a Lady Demands by Ashlyn Macnamara

Author:Ashlyn Macnamara
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2014-11-04T00:00:00+00:00

Cecelia and Anstruther might yet have formed an alliance over their mutual secret but for the whispers that had circulated about her. Unable to support the barest hint of scandal, Anstruther had sent her back to her family in shame. Oh, he’d been kind enough to allow her to be the one to end the engagement publicly, but that was the extent of his magnanimity.

There went Lind’s eyebrow. “And why should I believe a word of this? Anstruther has the cleanest reputation of any gentleman you might name. Hell, your own brother fairly worshipped the ground the man trod on.”

She might have pointed out what she’d learned: The most rigid of men often hid a secret or two behind that façade. In Anstruther’s case, it was Eversham. But she couldn’t state as much outright. Not without hinting at a situation she’d sworn to keep silent. “I ought to ask why you’d take Eversham’s word over mine. Had you even met the man before today?”

That gave him pause. He rubbed at his chin. “No,” he admitted. “Not even in my younger days.” Before the war, when he still went out in society, though he’d never make a more direct reference to that time. “He appeared out of nowhere, actually.”

“Where did you meet him?” There wasn’t even a village pub of any note close enough for Lind to have visited and come back from the rounds of his estate so soon. To make certain, she sniffed. Not even the smallest hint of brandy—or ale, for that matter, which would be far more likely in a mean little village spot. Only the crisp cleanliness she’d come to associate with him.

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