Three Lessons in Seduction by Sofie Darling

Author:Sofie Darling [Darling, Sofie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781682915127
Publisher: Soul Mate Publishing, LLC
Published: 2017-09-26T16:00:00+00:00

Nick hadn’t allowed the agent to finish that sentence. It was clear the man had never watched a marriage combust from the inside.

Nick had.

He’d just reached his fifth year when his older brother, Jamie, had gladly abandoned the ancestral pile in Suffolk and claimed his rightful place at Harrow, the boarding school that had been educating Asquith sons since the reign of King James I.

Left to his own devices, Nick spent the next five years mostly in the company of house servants and an ever-changing series of governesses. One after the other, the governesses replaced each other three or four times a year. The next was always the same as the last: young, pretty, and timid. Nick had blamed himself for their desertions and tried to be better, but better had never been good enough to make any of them stay. Only later did Nick understand about his father’s predilection for young, pretty, vulnerable girls.

Worse than the parade of governesses had been holidays when his mother deigned to leave her beloved London and visit Suffolk. Unable to control their mutual animosity, his parents spent the entire time sniping at each other and attempting to rip each other to shreds over one or the other’s latest infidelity.

And this was in the privacy of their home. Their public bouts were the stuff of legend.

As soon as Nick came of age and was finally, blessedly, old enough to have himself shipped off to Harrow, he’d joined Jamie amongst the ranks of the student population, and he never looked back.

Nick understood at an elemental level what came of love matches when the love went sour and curdled into a noxious, stinking heap of acrimony. And as much as he tried to convince himself and others that his and Mariana’s was a Society match, he knew exactly what sort of match they’d made.

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