Choosing Will by Kadee McDonald

Author:Kadee McDonald
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: sweet romance, historical romance, traditional Regency romance, young adult Regency, clean and wholesome, clean romance
Publisher: Kadee McDonald
Published: 2015-04-11T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

MEMORIES OF THE BALL filled her mind as Marisa sat propped up in bed the next morning, sipping her hot chocolate. The decorations, the lights, the lovely music, the press of people all in their most splendid dress.

Finally meeting Viscount Allersdale had proved him not to be the insensitive ogre she had imagined. She was even encouraged now that he could be a friend and an ally, though she prayed she’d not given him false hope.

She had met a number of other people as well, including a young army lieutenant named Farrington, whom Lyvia seemed most partial to, and Lady Sarah Tildesdale, a soft-spoken young woman who was Lieutenant Farrington’s cousin.

Marisa had danced with a number of other young gentlemen the previous evening, all of them relatives in some degree to the Wycliffe’s friends, many in uniform still. Her head spun when she tried to recall their names, as there were so many. She was thus engaged, marvelling at her own laziness at the hour of ten in the morning, when there came a light tap on her bedroom door.

“Come in,” she called and Lyvia appeared, already dressed.

“What? Still abed?” she asked, surprised. “You are usually the early bird.”

“I don’t often stay up until two of the morning dancing, either.” Marisa set her empty cup on the tray at her bedside table and stretched. “But you’re right. Last night was wonderful, the most I think I’ve enjoyed myself in years, but it is a particularly fine day, and I shall not waste it asleep.” She threw back the covers and set her bare feet on the soft rug.

“Oh, it is a grand day, isn’t it, Mary?” Lyvia crossed the room, pulled the curtain aside, and sighed as she gazed out the window at upper Mount Street. “I believe it’s the grandest day I’ve ever seen!”

Marisa glanced at her in surprise. Lyvia smiled brightly, her eyes sparkled, and her face glowed with excitement. “You seem in rare form today, Liv. Tell me, do, which one was he? Did I meet him?”

Lyvia turned back. “Am I that obvious? Oh, Mary, yes, he is wonderful, and you did meet him. He is Lieutenant Farrington... Lieutenant Richard Farrington.” She sighed. “When I was in his company last night, I felt so deliciously dizzy.”

“Liv! You seem completely smitten by this fellow.” Marisa laid her hairbrush aside and took her friend’s hand. “Is it so absolute, then? Surely you only met him for the first time last night?”

“We actually met several days ago, that afternoon you and Will visited the museum. He brought his cousin, you know...Lady Sarah?” When Marisa nodded, Lyvia continued, “He accompanied Lady Sarah to call on Mama, because their mothers were friends as children. They stayed only the proper half-hour, and we exchanged nothing but common pleasantries. Still, I liked him so well that I asked Mama if we might invite them to my ball. She said she would do so immediately, for she had been unaware that they were even in London until they called.

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