A Duke By Scot by Amy Jarecki

Author:Amy Jarecki [Jarecki, Amy]
Language: eng
Format: epub

Hat in hand, Julia stared at the door through which Dunscaby had just marched. What was she to do now? What if she did disappoint him? And what was it he’d said about traveling to Brixham?

Good glory, such a thing would be an unmitigated disaster.

His Grace was behaving as if meeting her was more important than purchasing a ship or the acquiring of the property on the Tay. Thus far, over the course of Julia’s employment, he had never pointedly told Smallwood not to disappoint him when it came to matters that were actually part of the steward’s scope of duties. She was quite certain finding a woman was nowhere in the contract she’d signed in Mr. MacCutcheon’s offices before she’d traveled to Newhailes.

However, the clause containing the words “…and carry out such duties as His Grace deems fit…” certainly covered the locating of a reticent “faux” second cousin.

Julia’s head swam as she added this conundrum to the mounting list of untenable predicaments she’d managed to get herself into since arriving in London. And she couldn’t sit idle while Silas Skinner was out there threatening to expose her secret.

“Or should I say, my lady? By the by, I shall require payment for my silence,” he’d whispered.

She couldn’t believe he’d had the gall to call her out and threaten her in front of the duke. Of all the lowlife scoundrels in London, he had to be the one of the foulest and most unpleasant.

And he needs to be silenced!

The time had come to be assertive. If he truly wanted Papa’s debt to be repaid, he would heed her.

After opening the secret compartment of her trunk and pulling out her blue day dress and everything she’d need to change, Julia cracked her door open and peered into the courtyard. Against everything she had promised herself, she must slip into the mews and dress as a woman once again.

Fortunately, the coast was clear and she made her way to the sedan chair, managing to dress without being noticed. Afterward, she all but ran until she was a few streets away from Dunscaby’s Mayfair town house. But that did nothing to allay the sickly churning in her stomach. Ever since Mr. Skinner had whispered in her ear, she hadn’t been able to eat. She couldn’t sleep. Goodness, breathing had become a chore.

And what was she to do with Martin’s seemingly insatiable desire to find her? If only there was a way to both be Julia St. Vincent as well as Jules Smallwood. Why could their paths not have crossed during her one and only Season? Of course, at the time the heir to the dukedom was occupied with establishing the reputation of being a notorious rake. Nonetheless, the past was over and now she absolutely must find a way to dissuade him. If the Duke of Dunscaby ever realized that Jules and Julia were one in the same, she’d never again be able to show her face anywhere in all of Britain.

At a corner, a carriage cut the gutter too close and splashed muddy water down her skirts.

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