Rivals Of Fortune / The Impetuous Heiress (2016) - Plot & Excerpts
drawled Lady Alicia Alston, gazing out over the great hall of Perdon Abbey with a distinctly jaundiced eye. The Honorable Roderick Massingham, second son of the Earl of Murne, sighed and leaned an elbow on the carved oak banister of the ancient minstrel’s gallery. The one trouble with Alicia, he thought, was that she was so deuced easily bored. It took all a fellow’s time just to keep her mildly amused, and he couldn’t remember when he had last seen her really laugh. Often, struggling to hold his own against her lightning wit, he wondered if the thing was worth the effort. Watching Alicia’s discontented profile, Roddy decided yet again that it was. Though he had known her for most of his twenty-six years, he had never become accustomed to her beauty. It struck him every time he looked at her. It was because of her mother, of course. The Duke of Morland, Alicia’s father, had startled London society by bringing home the dazzling daughter of a Swedish count as his bride, and Alicia had inherited her silver-blond hair, ice-blue eyes, and slender, willowy body that was entrancing despite her height.
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