To Win A Wicked Lord by Darling Sofie

Author:Darling, Sofie
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-64716-050-0
Publisher: Soul Mate Publishing, LLC
Published: 2020-04-22T00:00:00+00:00

Her mouth to the crack where door met frame, she hissed, “Open this door.” If a whisper could be a shout, hers was. “We’re not finished.”

Her ear again pressed to the door, she waited . . . and waited . . . for a sound, a sign, an acknowledgment, anything. At last, she heard it: a muffled shift, a light creak, a shuffle across bare floorboards.

Relief was quickly replaced with distress when the door opened and she all but fell into the room. He took a seat in a small, wooden chair, the picture of his usual laconic and devastating self.

Isabel stopped in the middle of the room and took in its furnishings: low, narrow bed with one worn blanket and one flat pillow; nightstand; dresser with three drawers; washstand in the corner; the chair he sat upon. None of it embellished or ornate. Simple. Spare. No excess. “Whose room is this?”

“It was the butler’s quarters when Rosebud Cottage was the main house.”

Proclivity toward self-denial.

Confirmation settled inside Isabel. “You’re the son of a duke, and you live in a servant’s room?”

He shrugged. “Your family are upstairs. This is simpler.”

“Simpler?” Really, this man. “You could be living in the manor house. You have access to every finery known to mankind. Yet you live in a servant’s room”—she shivered—“that doesn’t seem to have a heat source.” Though it was summer, the nights held a measure of winter never absent from this island.

He flicked an unconcerned wrist at the wall behind him. “Heat would have come from the kitchens, but since they are no longer in use, a bracing chill persists.”

“A bracing chill?” she scoffed. “So, the son of a duke does without.”

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