Adding Up to Love: Book One of the Flower Sisters Series by Ginny B. Moore

Author:Ginny B. Moore [Moore, Ginny B.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ginny B. Moore, Author
Published: 2023-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 21

When Alex threw himself down on the worn leather chair in Henry’s apartment, his entire body ached. His head was pounding when he arrived at Pembroke and grew worse when he had to explain to a new guard on duty why he had Lord Henry’s horse in the first place at the late hour. Even worse was the persistent ache from unresolved lust, only exacerbated by a twenty-minute ride on horseback.

Henry handed him a glass of whiskey and lounged across from Alex in a matching armchair, looking annoyingly at ease. “With that expression, I am willing to wager you have gotten yourself into quite a heap of trouble,” Henry said with a smirk.

Alex grumbled a low curse. For their entire relationship, Alex had been the logical one, the staid and stable friend, the person who got Henry out of trouble and never got himself into it. Alex knew Henry would enjoy gloating over the reversal in fortune, but it was still bloody irritating.

“I’m certainly in it now,” Alex replied, drinking deeply from his whiskey, wincing as it burned down his throat. “You know I’ve been courting Rose Waverly.”

“And incomprehensibly she is responding well, so I’ve heard.”

Alex narrowed his eyes at the cut but continued. “Her father has offered to write me a recommendation to the School of Economics.” He sighed. “I think she wants me to ask her to marry me.”

Henry sat back in his chair, his face spreading into a grin as he raised his glass. “Well, congratulations are in order! I never would have thought you would be the one to catch the fair Rose, but well done!” Henry paused, taking in his friend’s pinched expression. “But I take it you’re not completely thrilled with this arrangement. You told me you fancied yourself in love with her.”

“I am. I was. I don’t know.” He noted absently that the whiskey burned less the more he sipped.

“What has happened to change your mind?”

Alex sighed. “She has a sister.”

Henry groaned. “As I understand it, she has several sisters. Which one is causing the problem?”

“Her twin, Fern.” Alex swirled his remaining whiskey and a took large sip. It burned even less now but had not dulled the ache in his chest.

A delighted laugh escaped Henry’s lips. “Rose Waverly has a twin? Good God, how has the world been denied this glorious knowledge until now?”

“She’s…different,” Alex replied, watching as Henry’s brows furrowed.

“Different how?” Henry asked.

Alex paused to consider the question, struggling to reconcile how he had first seen Fern, how dismissive and rude he had been to her the day they met in the library, with the woman he had been unable to resist kissing earlier that night. “She’s brilliant, eerily brilliant in fact, and it makes her…eccentric.”

Henry leaned forward, draining his whiskey and pouring himself another before topping off Alex’s glass. “Eccentric how? Collecting pet birds eccentric or screaming obscenities from the rooftops eccentric?”

Alex scoffed. “Neither of those. She hates social situations and would spend all day in the library if she could.

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