The Nude (full-length Historical Romance) - Plot & Excerpts
Nothing was amiss, she assured herself. Just because Lauretta was absent from the ballroom and Charlie, also unaccounted for, had stalked away from her earlier in a thundering rage shouldn’t mean that she needed to disintegrate into a leaky watering pot while stranded in the middle of the dance floor. But what if Charlie had lured Lauretta away? What if—? She shook her head. Fretting never solved a crisis, real or imagined. What she needed was action. And help. She quickly found Olivia sequestered in a corner with the illustrious Beau Brummell, discussing—of all things—the troubles of importing fashionable fabrics from France because of that troublesome war. “Olivia,” she said as she pried her cousin from the sofa’s plush cushion, “go straight up to our apartment and see if Lauretta has hied herself off to bed.” “But-but I’m—” Olivia twisted out of Elsbeth’s grasp so she could turn her gentle, albeit shocked, expression back toward Brummell. “Heed me, Olivia, and do as you are told.”
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