A Devious Secret: A Regency Romance (Gentlemen of London Book 6) by Laura Beers

Author:Laura Beers [Beers, Laura]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-02-07T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Stephen had a lot of work to do but instead he found himself sitting on the settee with Bandit’s head in his lap. He was pleased with the progress that he had made with Gemma. The more he spent time with her, the more he knew that she was the one for him. With just one smile, she had bewitched him, and he never wanted to go back to the way it was before she had walked into his life. He couldn’t since he was truly and utterly happy. And he hadn’t felt this way in a long time.

Bandit’s head shot up and he turned his head towards the door.

A moment later, his butler shuffled into the room and announced, “Lord Hawthorne is here to see you, sir.”

“Send him in.”

“As you wish,” the butler said before he left to do his bidding.

Stephen went to move from the settee, but Bandit wanted nothing to do with that. The dog stared up at him with his brown eyes and he reluctantly leaned back in his seat.

Hawthorne stepped into the room and asked, “Shall we depart for the docks?”

“I suppose so.”

“You suppose so?” Hawthorne asked. “I thought you wanted to track down Benjamin?”

Rising, Stephen wiped off the dog hair from his trousers. “I do, but I got distracted.”

Hawthorne gave him a knowing look. “I must assume that you are speaking of my cousin, Gemma."

"I am,” Stephen admitted, seeing no reason to deny it. “I do not want to rush her, but I am hoping she will be open to my offer of courtship soon enough.”

“Just be patient with her,” Hawthorne encouraged.

“I have every intention to,” Stephen said. “I will wait as long as it takes to convince her that I am the man for her.”

Hawthorne smirked. “It wouldn’t be such a terrible thing to welcome you to our family.”

“Careful, that almost sounds like you approve.”

“Then I must have said it wrong,” Hawthorne joked. “I took the liberty of securing a hackney to take us to the docks. It is waiting out front.”

“Let us depart before the driver grows tired of waiting and abandons us,” Stephen said as he headed towards the door.

They didn’t speak as they exited his townhouse and approached the hackney. Stephen opened the door for Hawthorne and waited until he was situated before he stepped inside.

Stephen brought a hand up to his nose as a foul odor permeated the coach. “Did you pick the most offensive smelling hackney you could find?”

Hawthorne shrugged. “You get used to the smell.”

“I somehow doubt that to be true.” He went to open the window but quickly realized that it was broken. There was little he could do but sit back and try to ignore the pungent smell. No amount of complaining would change his current situation.

Stephen stared out the window. The street was so crowded with traffic that the coach wasn’t moving much faster than the people walking down the pavement.

“At this rate, we will never get there,” Stephen remarked.

“It is preferable to walking.

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