Engaging the Enemy: a steamy friends-to-lovers meets enemies-to-lovers romcom (Entitled Love: The Novels Book 1) by Rachel Rowan

Author:Rachel Rowan [Rowan, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2023-08-29T16:00:00+00:00

TWENTY

Amelia sat at her dressing table and took a long, hard look at herself.

So. This is what an idiot looks like.

An idiot who had been walking around in a daze all day with sore lips, an ache between her legs, faint bruises on her thighs, and a disconcerting sense that her whole life until that morning had been a sort of watery, shadow thing only half-lived.

She had a bruise on her knee too from when she had walked into a bench while remembering how Hugo had—

Shifting in her seat, she forced the memory from her mind and picked up her hairbrush, eyeing her makeup critically. It felt like clown paint, despite being so subtle that most people would hardly regard it as makeup at all. But dinner at Conyers required a lot more effort than…well, dinner almost anywhere else. The Earl and his wife were the sort that still insisted on dressing for dinner. So Amelia had a dark-grey satin sheath dress hanging from her wardrobe door. And she had dug out some heels that were only a little bit scuffed.

It would have to do.

Of course, she would far rather not go anywhere near Conyers at all. She felt stupidly nervous about seeing Hugo again, and to see him like this, in company with his whole family—barring Evie, her one true ally—was slightly terrifying. But he had asked her that morning while she was still coming to terms with what had happened, embarrassed and exhausted and weak and wanting him to stay even as she pushed him out of the door.

She’d said yes just to shut him up and get rid of him. And then she had stood alone in the middle of her room and, stupidly, she had cried. And then she had a long shower, and, stupidly, she had laughed. And she was still caught somewhere between those two extremes even as she sat calmly at her dressing table and twisted her hair up into something far more elegant than her usual messy bun.

Her phone rang just as she was about to stand up and change into her dress. She felt a surge of…fear? Excitement? But it wasn’t Hugo. It was Cassie, her sister.

“Hi, Cass, how are you?”

“Good, yeah.”

Cassie’s voice had that faint, tinny sound of a long-distance call. It wasn’t helped by the fact there was noise in the background. It sounded like she was walking down a busy road. Cassie was generally trying to do five things at once.

“Do you have a date yet for your flight back?” Amelia asked. “Because Mum says she might be staying in Peru a bit longer than she planned. So there might be a day or two when you’re here by yourself. Sorry.”

“Yeah, you see… That’s what I’m calling about…”

Amelia’s hand tightened on the phone, a nasty premonition sending a spike of unpleasant heat through her stomach. “Oh?”

“It’s that internship… At David’s uncle’s paper, you know? I thought it was a total bust after what happened, but it seems they still want me.

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