The Way To A Duke's Heart: The Truth About The Duke - Plot & Excerpts
It had begun to rain after dinner, first a gentle drizzle that steadily grew harder until it drummed on the slate roof and rattled against the windows. Charlie sent Barnes and the other servants to their beds and sat in front of his sitting room fire, drinking brandy and brooding. What the hell was he doing? He’d come into Somerset to catch a blackmailer, find Dorothy Cope, and eliminate any threat to his inheritance. So far he’d located Hiram Scott but done nothing to confront him, heard not one word of Dorothy, and learned nothing of any help in saving his brothers and himself from penury and disgrace. Instead he’d cultivated an old lady’s devotion, gone out drinking with engineers and laborers, and fallen head over heels for a direct, confident woman who thought him a bit of an idiot. Which, all things considered, he most likely was. He let his head fall back against the hard sofa and sighed. If only Tessa Neville had been a jolly, middle-aged woman.
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