How to Seduce a Wife by Kate Pearce

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

Nicholas headed for the card room, his expression so forbidding that several of the other guests moved quickly out of his path. What the devil was the matter with his wife? It seemed that every time he advanced the smallest step in her affections, she immediately took three steps back. What kind of man did she think he was?

He stopped walking. The kind of man she was used to seeing in a society marriage, the kind his father had been. Damnation, she was right to be skeptical. Even he wouldn’t have believed himself capable of fidelity before he’d met and married her.

“Nick?” He looked up into the amused blue gaze of Captain David Gray. “Is everything all right?”

He attempted a shrug. “I’ll never understand women.”

“Then why try?” David offered him a glass of brandy. “Women do tend to complicate the simplest of matters with all that unnecessary emotion, don’t they?”

“Sarcasm doesn’t become you.” Nicholas cast David a blistering look as they settled into two upright chairs against the wall and pretended to watch the card players. “Perhaps I should be more specific. I’ll never understand my wife, and unfortunately, due to the potentially long-standing nature of our relationship, I have to bloody try.”

“That’s true.” David contemplated the scene in front of them. “She is quite young and inexperienced, Nick.”

“I know that.”

“And, perhaps if I might be so bold as to mention it, your sister isn’t.”

“What do my problems with Louisa have to do with my sister?”

David looked at him. “Because it’s obvious that April is your wife’s closest friend in Town. Perhaps the advice your wife is receiving is a little too sophisticated and worldly for her.”

Nicholas let out his breath. “I haven’t considered that. I was just pleased that they deal so well together.”

“I’m sure that was important to you. You’re very fond of April, aren’t you?”

“We survived my father together. We protected each other.” Nicholas sighed and took a long drink of his brandy. “April is eight years older than me. That makes her fourteen years older than Louisa.”

“Between April and a socially unacceptable mother, your wife’s perception of her place in society and your affections might be a little confused.”

Nicholas smiled. “She won’t be confused after tomorrow night. I’ll make damned sure that she understands exactly what I’d like from her.”

“And how do you intend to do that?”

Nicholas clinked his glass against David’s. “I’m taking her to Madame Helene’s for a spot of adventuring.”

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