The Seduction of Viscount Vice by Nicola Davidson

Author:Nicola Davidson
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2017-04-30T18:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

“All right, who are you, and what have you done with our surly Scot?”

Glancing over his shoulder from where he was finishing getting dressed for the evening’s entertainment at Fallen, Vice quickly shoved the dusty ring box he’d been holding under a pile of cravats. He smiled politely at Sin and Devil as they ambled through the bedchamber door. “Good afternoon. Go fuck yourselves.”

Devil snorted. “See, it vaguely sounds like him with that grating Lowlander accent, but his lips are arranged in a smile that may have to be surgically removed.”

“You really should refrain from attempts at humor, Sassenach. It’s just painful for everyone.”

“So things are going well with Lady Mairi?” said Sin, perching on a chaise.

More than well. Mairi had actually stayed the night after their incredible interlude on the pirate ship. In between hours of kissing, touching, and sometimes slow and sensuous, sometimes fast and rough fucking, she’d lain naked in his arms where she belonged and finally talked a little about her years in Paris. Her employer Yvette du Bois. Ramsey and Olivier. The work she’d done as a seamstress and prop mistress at the original Worldly supper and entertainment theater.

The last few days had been never-ending because he hadn’t been able to see her; she’d been caught up in final preparations for the opening of Madame Yvette’s new venue. Actually, he couldn’t help thinking that Yvette sounded damned lazy and manipulative—ten years of six-day-a-week service from two people, and now the setting up of an entirely new business, seemed a very high price for one act of kindness.

“Well enough,” he said with a shrug, knowing that would irritate both men beyond words. They were as bad as their wives when it came to wanting details.

“When are you going to see her next?” said Devil.

“Tomorrow, I hope. We’ll both be free then.”

Sin grimaced. “This arrived.” He handed over a thin envelope. “From your investigator man.”

“Thank you.” Vice took it and tucked it into the inner pocket of his black evening jacket. Tonight was one of the rare occasions he wouldn’t be performing onstage.

“Aren’t you going to open it?”

“Not right now. I’m sure it will only confirm what I already know, and I still have some tasks to complete for our dear Charlie’s dominatrix show. That flogging bar has a hairline crack in it; the last thing we want is it snapping in two.”

Hours later though, he wasn’t nearly as cool and calm.

What the hell was wrong with everyone? Fallen was usually a crush at this hour, but they’d had about half their usual number through the door and half again had left as soon as Charlie had finished her act featuring three brawny and particularly disobedient young men.

“Wonderful show as always, Vice. Wish I didn’t have to leave so soon, but my wife is expecting me at a damned charity ball.”

He nodded and shook yet another escapee lord’s hand, but the smilingly apologetic liars were getting damned tiresome.

“Bloody hell,” said Sin, coming to stand beside him. “Another one leaving? Is there an odor here I cannot smell?”

“Perhaps.

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