Four Weddings and a Sixpence by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-12-26T22:00:00+00:00

Cordelia woke up on a settee in one of the small parlors, wrapped in the cloak from Kipp’s princely garb.

For a moment, she smiled to herself, thinking of how she’d passed the last few hours with him—in his arms, beneath him. She sighed and curled her arms around herself, if only to hold those precious memories tight.

They’d come tiptoeing back into the house like a pair of thieves, and then stolen another bit of passion on this very settee.

She tightened his cloak around her for warmth, and then opened her eyes and sighed. Almost immediately she heard the telltale rustle of silk.

Kipp.

She looked around and realized she wasn’t alone. And it wasn’t Kipp.

For standing in the doorway were her aunts. All three of them.

“Cordelia Prudence Anastasia Padley, a full accounting of this scene. I demand no less,” Aunt Landon said, shuttling her sisters in, and after a glance behind her, she closed the door.

“Whatever has happened to you, child?” Aunt Bunty asked, coming over and sitting down beside her. She looked at the cloak, and then, taking a second closer look, gasped a little.

“A child no longer,” Aunt Landon noted.

Aunt Aldora sniffed and began to cry. “I knew it would all be for naught.”

“All for naught?” Cordelia asked, sitting up and looking at their stern expressions. “No, no, you misunderstand. I am to be married.”

Aunt Aldora began to wail, and Aunt Bunty did her best to console her sister.

Aunt Landon huffed a sigh. “I hardly see how when Lord Talcott has deserted you for that horrible Miss Holt.”

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