Simply Scandalous by Kate Pearce

Author:Kate Pearce [Pearce, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: C429, Extratorrents, Kat
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
Published: 2012-11-19T13:00:00+00:00

Emily put the last of the letters down and stared blindly at the wall, her mother’s words echoing in her head.

“I have to let him back into my bed, you know why. I cannot avoid him. I cannot abide the thought of letting him win.”

A vague memory surfaced of going into her mother’s bedchamber seeking comfort from a nightmare and finding someone who was not her father rising up from the bed. She remembered screaming and her mother hushing her, pressing her face into her breasts, and telling her she had seen nothing, that she was having another nightmare, that she was to forget everything. . . .

Emily brought her hand to her mouth and fought the urge to retch. Was that why seeing Mr. Smith in the present had revolted her so much? Had she instinctively feared him? She contemplated the letters again. If what she suspected was true, it wasn’t surprising that Philip was so desperate to retrieve the journal and keep its contents a secret.

And if she was right, there was no reason why she shouldn’t behave exactly as she wanted. Perhaps she had more of her mother’s blood in her than she realized. Maybe this explained why Philip had always refused her requests to visit the pleasure house. He probably feared she would turn out like her mother. She wrapped her arms around herself, suddenly cold. She’d always felt as if she didn’t quite belong in the colorful Delornay-Ross family and had tried to pretend that she didn’t care.

Tonight, she cared. Tomorrow, she would ask Jack Lennox to accompany her to the pleasure house, and this time she would behave exactly as she wished. She was almost certain that her father would approve.

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