The Misgivings About Miss Prudence by Maggie Dallen

Author:Maggie Dallen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Maggie Dallen

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The sound of Pru’s laughter was nice. Melodic and sweet and...lovely.

Now if only he could get her to sing, he had no doubt her voice would be just as sweet. Untrained, of course, and far from perfect. But perfect was overrated, particularly when it came to music.

That was the one lesson he wished to get across to Pru and he wasn’t sure how, not after a lifetime of hearing that her very happiness and the course of her life would be determined by whether or not she could achieve perfection.

“Shall we walk back?” he asked on impulse as they reached the carriage.

Pru looked surprised for only a moment before she nodded. “Oh, but Mrs. Hawkins.”

He arched his brows. “Who?”

The chaperone a few paces behind him cleared her throat.

Pru lowered her voice. “I am not certain she is fit to walk such a distance.”

“Ah,” he said. What he meant was, perfect. “Then by all means, Mrs. Hawkins shall ride in the carriage—”

He saw the older woman open her mouth to protest but he was already turning to the driver. “You wouldn’t mind riding slowly, would you, so as to keep Miss Pottermouth and I in view?”

“Of course not, my lord.”

“There you have it,” he said, already ushering Mrs. Hawkins toward the carriage as Prudence looked on with a look of alarm.

“Truly?” she asked once they were underway.

“What’s wrong?”

“Are you trying to get me killed?” she hissed.

It was official. He absolutely despised the fear he saw in her eyes.

“I told you, Pru.” He met her gaze evenly. “I will deal with your aunt.”

He’d never been a terribly protective sort. But then again, he’d never had much need to be. He had no younger siblings, no damsels in distress who would turn to him for aid. He eyed Prudence now…

Not that she qualified as a damsel in distress.

But somehow her strength and her forceful demeanor made him want to protect her that much more. He frowned at the ground as he tried to figure out why that was.

“Don’t you go getting all grim on me,” Prudence murmured beside him.

His head came up with a snap. “Excuse me?”

Her lips twitched upward. “Where will we be if we’re both too serious?”

He laughed. “Who said you’re too serious?”

She shrugged and he found he couldn’t look away from the small smile that hovered on her lips as if she’d forgotten it was there. “My best friend, Delilah. My other friends, Louisa and Addie…”

She looked over and caught his surprise before he could hide it. “Yes, Damian, I do have friends,” she said with a roll of her eyes that made him laugh.

“Of course you do,” he said.

“Don’t be condescending,” she said. “If a rakish rogue such as yourself can have some friends then surely a too-serious, sanctimonious goody-two-shoes like me can as well.”

He gasped and threw a hand over his heart, feigning shock. “Whoever called you such names?”

She glanced over at him and they both burst out in a laugh that seemed to ease some of the heaviness that had been weighing on him ever since he’d seen that flicker of fear.

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