Citit - Wedding Night With the Earl by Amelia Grey

Author:Amelia Grey [Grey, Amelia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

You are not wood, you are not stones, but men.

—Julius Caesar, act 3, scene 2

It was the most nondescript building on London’s most fashionable street. The Heirs’ Club. It didn’t have the notoriety, the membership, or the reputation of the older, prestigious White’s, but it had an exclusivity that neither White’s nor any other gentleman’s club could boast. No gentleman could join unless he was titled or an heir to a title.

Adam stood on the pavement in front of the door to the famed club, waiting, as he always had, for his friend Bray to arrive and gain him entrance, but this would be the last time. In all his years of coming to the club, Adam never thought he’d be a member. With Bray, he’d never needed to be. After today, he would be a member and could come and go as he wished.

While in his twenties, when he was often a guest at the club, Adam was third or maybe fourth in line for the title of Earl of Greyhawke. Inheriting it wasn’t something that ever crossed his mind. And even now, it wasn’t that he wanted or even needed to join, but Bray and Harrison wouldn’t rest until he did.

The Duke of Drakestone had always been his voucher past the stiff-lipped attendant who guarded the door as if the king’s diamond-encrusted scepter were held inside. Unlike Adam and Harrison, Bray had been born an heir. Though his admittance into the elite club hadn’t been easy for him to come by when he came of age. And Adam and Harrison were the main reasons.

The three of them had met at Eton. All were tall, strong, and capable of most anything for their young age, and they had done plenty that was foolish and often dangerous, too. They excelled at whatever they did and seldom had to put in the same amount of study time as most of the other boys at the school, which left the trio with time and an eagerness to do the things they enjoyed. That usually meant getting into trouble with the headmaster and Bray’s stern father, who had been a hard taskmaster.

Years ago, the three of them had almost caused a rift in the membership at the Heirs’ Club. Some of the oldest members didn’t want Bray to join because they knew he’d invite Adam and Harrison to join him there—often. Which he did. With little chance of Adam and Harrison ever being an heir, at the time, most of the members didn’t want the well-known troublemakers in their quiet, respectable club.

No surprise to any of them, Bray’s father, who was a powerful duke himself at the time, had remained silent on the matter, but Bray had an older friend who’d stood up for him, and the disgruntled members had been forced to back down. So even though Adam, Harrison, and Bray had enjoyed their raucous game of cards complete with ribald jokes, loud, salacious songs, and an abundance of fine brandy

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