Good Duke Gone Wild: A Historical Regency Romance Novel (The Good Dukes) by Eliana Piers

Author:Eliana Piers [Piers, Eliana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2024-10-22T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

WHAT THE HELL WAS that pounding against his head? It felt like the devil and an entourage of his minions were trying to plow a field through his brain. Jude could barely bring himself to sit up right with the weight of the banging on his scalp.

And the dreams that had flashed through his mind last night. Oh, they had been of the worst variety. Dancing like an ogre at a ball. Embarrassing himself. Kissing a lady. The worst kind too, the sort that lied about who she was. And then there was a weird and awkward carriage ride in which he had caught her trying to sneak away with him.

That was the worst dream of his adult life, despite the thickest cockstand he had between his legs as he thought about the Siren he had mingled with in his dreams. He needed to wake up so that he could forget every second of it. He was not the kind of man to fall for a woman, certainly not the kind that plagued his dreams last night.

Gradually, his eyes creaked open and his hands found balance hoisting himself at his hips. He leaned against the headboard and rubbed his temple.

God, how much had he imbibed last night? He hadn’t felt this sick since…well, ever. He had never once ever felt an ounce of this megrim. If this is what women meant when they referred to a megrim, he would no longer balk at the excuse. Any woman who had undergone a megrim of this magnitude—

Any woman? No. His thoughts jolted in place. Not just any woman. That woman from his dreams. Oh my God. It was all real and not a dream. This was terrible. She was real. A single woman was now visually marching across the space of his mind not even vying for purchase, just simply taking it as if she was entitled to it. Having gained her position and securing her foothold, she was planted in his mind. A permanent fixture now.

That damn Siren.

His head thrummed loudly. He had been with her last night drinking at the ball, in the library.

But something about the carriage jostled loose in his brain.

He leaned his head back against the wall.

No. It couldn’t be. It wasn’t just the carriage. It was the carriage and his ship.

His blasted ship? He had brought her aboard his pure, magnificent ship?

His head fell to the side, thus casting his line of sight toward the table. Where a single solitary glass rested. A glass she had passed him.

Tearing out of his bed, he frantically looked around. Obviously she wasn’t in the room, he would have felt her presence. Would he have, really? Yes, he would have. But he wasn’t examining that debate and its foregone conclusion now.

Stumbling out of his room and up to the deck, he nearly tripped over his men encircling the Siren. They were sitting there like giddy schoolchildren. She in her mermaid gown, they in their ragged clothes. Her eyes alit and smile glowing, she was regalling them with a tale.

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