The Scandalous Life Of A True Lady (2013) - Plot & Excerpts
Harry asked later that night. “What gives you that idea?” Simone answered from within the tightly drawn curtains of the canopied bed. Harry looked at the closed hangings surrounding the bed, then at the stack of pillows and blankets on the floor near the hearth. A familiar velvet box rested on top of the pile. “Oh, a lucky guess, I suppose.” He sighed loudly enough to be heard from within Simone’s draped cocoon. “The floor covering is not very thick, you know.” “Your skin cannot be all that thin, not with the barbs that bounced off you tonight. Harry the Heartbreaker, humph. There are extra blankets in the dressing room. Put another down over the rug.” He sighed again. “I’ll wake up with a stiff neck and a sore back.” The silence from the direction of the bed told how much Simone cared about his comfort. “What if Metlock or Sarah comes into the room early and sees me sleeping on the floor? Worse, what if one of Gorham’s servants enters to rekindle the fire and trips over me?
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