An acquaintance between the women was unexpected, but Alecia’s husband held a minor position in the government. Perhaps Lord and Lady Naughton were popular among London social circles. He still shivered at the memory of looking up from kissing Kat to find his aunt and Alecia on his heels. Between the letters he’d destroyed and Alecia’s tendency to pop up where he least expected to find her, he felt hunted, pursued. Irony of ironies, by the woman he’d once pursued to the point of forfeiting every bit of his peace of mind. He spun the paradox in his mind as he waited for his aunt to join him in her drawing room. Tapping his fingers on the arm of his chair, he studied a painting of a blond country girl walking through a meadow. The artist had achieved a fine composition, with a golden mean sort of proportionality. The female figure in the center looked back at the viewer over her shoulder, a surprisingly seductive pose for such a wholesome subject, and the line of her neck and shade of her hair reminded him of Kat.
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