A Duke to Elude: Sweet Regency Romance (Sherton Sisters Book 1) by Wendy May Andrews

Author:Wendy May Andrews [Andrews, Wendy May]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Sparrow Ink
Published: 2020-09-15T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Wexford had hoped to be able to avoid gossip, but it didn’t seem that was likely. He wouldn’t compromise the girl, but he needed to know what she knew. Just her very evasiveness told him she knew something she didn’t want to share. He needed to know what it was. He doubted Lady Rosabel was involved in Prescott’s schemes, but anything she might know could help him control the viscount.

It pained him to hear her claim he was being ungentlemanly, but he couldn’t be squeamish at a time like this. He would try to make her see the importance of the matter, and he would make every effort to make up for any churlishness she might think he was displaying. But he couldn’t change his course of action.

Perhaps he had been foolish to think she would confide in him in the middle of a ball. He was normally far more astute. It was possible her beauty had melted his mind. He would have to stop dithering about on this matter. Time was running out. It was unlike him to allow a woman to interfere with his affairs, and it was unheard of for a debutante to be running him around in circles. It was time for him to close this matter and get on with other matters of national trust.

Those thoughts had all chased each other around his mind as he watched Lady Rosabel stalk away from him. It was the most graceful stalking he had ever witnessed, but it was clear, at least to him, that she was more than eager to be rid of him.

It had been outrageous of him to threaten her and her sisters with scandal. He knew he wouldn’t be able to follow through on the threat. But even just extending his association with her ran that risk. It was slight, of course. And there was always the obvious solution, if it became necessary. But he didn’t want to find his duchess in such an underhanded way. Especially not when she had been so clear on the fact that she didn’t want to be one.

But the king was counting on him. With the monarch’s health being so precarious in recent years, it was all the more necessary for him to rely upon his advisors. It was an honour that his king had taken him to fill the previous Duke of Wexford’s place at his side. But it was a responsibility James didn’t feel qualified for. And he took it very seriously. He could not allow a debutante to stand in the way of protecting the realm.

Setting his chin in his customary determined stance, James turned his attention away from the Sherton chit. If he was serious about his effort not to draw attention to his association with her, he would have to dance with others. Even if that made it appear that he was ready to be in the Marriage Mart — that was a small price to pay. In all reality, it would change very little.

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