Confounding the Fortune Hunter: A Proper Regency Romance Adventure (Northcott Kinship) by Wendy May Andrews

Author:Wendy May Andrews [Andrews, Wendy May]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sparrow Ink
Published: 2023-06-12T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

When Lord Wiltshire called to take her driving the next day, Lucy tried to be delighted. Or rather more delighted. Because she was delighted, she insisted to herself with amusement. Perhaps she was protesting too much. But it was good to have something interrupt her agitated thoughts. Waiting had never been her strong suit, and not knowing what had taken place between the Northcott brothers was driving her to distraction. Wiltshire’s interruption of her disordered thoughts was welcome.

“What a perfect carriage, my lord,” she complimented. “I cannot say that I’ve been in one exactly the same. It’s not as high as a phaeton but far sportier than a barouche. It feels safe and yet not staid. I didn’t think this particular combination existed. I must compliment you.”

“Why thank you, Miss Scranton. I am delighted that you approve.”

Lucy almost snorted over his word choice. Apparently others besides her were full of delight that day. She hoped he was going to be able to hold her attention. Guilt assailed her for the uncharitable thought. He was a pleasant man who seemed to have formed an attachment of sorts to her. She ought to be thrilled. But her mind was preoccupied with Gilbert Northcott’s investigation, and she would far rather be following suspects or whatever one does while investigating than be involved in a rather tedious courtship.

A sigh threatened to interrupt her. It would seem Isabelle’s constant harping on falling in love was rubbing off on her. She didn’t want to find a future spouse tedious, that was for certain.

That wasn’t to say that she found Wiltshire tedious. Far from it, most of the time. But it was hard for any man to compete with a plot of treachery. Who really could?

Roderick might be able to, came the vicious little thought from the back of her mind. The unwelcome, vicious thought, she acknowledged with dismay. The object of said thoughts appeared before her as though conjured from her mind. How wearisome.

“I say, is Northcott courting Miss Billingsley?”

Lucy’s midsection clenched unpleasantly at the gentleman’s question.

“Why do you ask?” she hedged.

“I know your family is chummy with his, so I thought you might know. And the two of them are over there strolling along as though they might be.”

Lucy’s gaze shifted in the direction the earl had indicated and then she had to blink to make sense of what she was seeing. Wiltshire hadn’t been exaggerating. Roderick and Miss Billingsley were strolling as though they might be courting. But they might not be, she tried to point out to herself. There were surely any number of explanations for why they might be walking together in the park at the fashionable hour.

Wasn’t Roderick supposed to be helping his brother with an important matter? Why was he out doing something frivolous at such a time? Then again, so was she, she tried to point out reasonably to herself but apparently she wasn’t in the mood for reasonableness. Fury built within her the longer she watched Roderick

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