Sin Incarnate (No Rules for Rogues Book 1) by Isobel Carr

Author:Isobel Carr [Carr, Isobel]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Tags: Romance, Historical, Fiction
ISBN: 9781940160016
Publisher: GoLightly Press
Published: 2020-09-16T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Mrs E— appears to have conquered yet another lordling, if reports of wild rides in Hyde Park and late-night revels in her home are to be believed…and believe them we do.

Tête-à-Tête, 4 November 1788

George flexed her hand around her crop, savouring the weight of it. A gallop that had brought out a foaming sweat on her mount had done nothing to calm her. She was still shaking with the urge to beat Dauntry senseless and give him another scar to remember her by.

Running lightly up the steps of the Morpeths’ town house, she found herself still fuming. An afternoon surrounded by men was about as appealing as overcooked turbot. And the idea of being anywhere Dauntry might be able to find her was insupportable. Victoria’s salon offered a safe haven. Possibly the only one in London.

The humiliation of the sensation of heartbreak that had welled up inside her when his grandfather had introduced his future bride was still fresh. It shouldn’t have mattered, and that’s what stung the most.

He’d teased her into breaking her most sacrosanct rule, and this was the price she paid for it.

Damn him.

And damn her for letting this happen. She knew better.

She was greeted at the door by her godson, Hayden, who slid across the marble hall as though it were ice, his cries of ‘Aunt George!’ causing their long-suffering butler to wince, squeezing one eye shut as though it would somehow make the boy quieter.

George braced herself for the inevitable collision. Hay threw his arms around her, hugging her tightly.

The Morpeths’ youngest son was still in the nursery, while the eldest was at Eton, but nine-year-old Hayden had yet to be sent away to school. Next year…

‘Hello, Hay.’ Something about Hayden just forced one to adore him. She hugged him back, then brushed his hair back into place with her fingers.

He smiled up at her, pale grey eyes full of mischief. He hugged her again for good measure before releasing her. ‘I wanted to ask you something particularly. Before Mother arrives.’

‘And what might that be, imp?’ She repressed the urge to respond with a conspiratorial smile. The last thing Hay needed was encouragement.

‘Julius’s godfather is taking him to see a review of the troops in Hyde Park when he comes home,’ he began, staring up at her earnestly, his small frame aquiver.

‘And you want me to take you, too?’ It was all too easy to picture the trouble he was likely to get them both into at such an event.

‘No! I want you take me to Astley’s! They have zebras now,’ he threw in as his clincher.

Zebras. An inducement indeed. ‘And wherever did you hear about this new addition?’

‘Oh, Ned Arden was telling me all about it yesterday.’

‘Well then, that seals it. We must go. It would be insupportable for such a slow top as Ned Arden to steal a march on us.’

Hayden gave her a beatific smile and assured her that he’d been sure she’d understand the necessity of the thing once it was properly explained to her.

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