Kendal: Regency Rockstars by Sasha Cottman

Author:Sasha Cottman
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter Twenty-Three

In his early days of seducing women, Kendal had kept score. It was something all young men of his social class did; it went hand in hand with bragging about the size of one’s cock. He had enough friends whose nicknames were Long John and Footlong to know much of it was merely empty boasting. But he had long ago stopped counting the number of women he had bedded.

Sex had always been a pleasurable pursuit. The Noble Lords had been formed to win their way back into the beds of the wicked women of London society, and, if the number of come-hither smiles the four friends were now garnering at every performance was any indicator, they were succeeding.

But from the first time that he and Mercy had kissed, Kendal had found himself uninterested in the offers that were flooding his way or boasting about his sexual exploits. It was still good to be taking some of the attention away from their Italian rivals. Owen, to his credit, had managed to steal one young matron out of the hands of Antonio Calvino, something which all the Noble Lords had taken great pleasure in.

With his heart spoken for, Kendal now found his affections for Mercy seeping into the other aspects of his life. When he played the piano, it was for her. Even while he sat in the glittering ballrooms and elegant drawing rooms of London, playing for the social elite, he thought of Mercy.

When he rose in the morning, he made Nigel hurry through the process of getting him dressed and ready. He was eager to head downstairs and be waiting for Mercy when she set foot through the door. If it wasn’t for the awkward questions it would have raised, he’d have waited for her in the rear laneway. Anything to be able to steal an extra early morning kiss or two from her.

This morning as she walked into the ballroom, he held up a sheet of music and waved it triumphantly in the air. “I wrote something. Come and hear it!”

Mercy set her bag down. She held out her hand, fingers waggling, and he hurried over, bowing as he presented her with the manuscript.

Kendal bounced on the balls of his feet, full of excitement. “What do you think?” he pressed.

She smiled at him. “I think you need to play this, and right this instant.”

It took Kendal three attempts to get the music sheet on the top of the keyboard. He sucked in a long, slow breath, trying to steady his racing heart. When Mercy sat on the piano stool next to him, she pointed at his hands. They were shaking.

She turned and gave the closed ballroom door a glance, before leaning in and offering him her mouth. Ignoring the music sheet as it slipped off the piano and onto the floor, Kendal cupped her face in his hands and settled his lips over hers.

This was the best part of his day. The moment when it was just the two of them.

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