To Recapture A Rake: A Hephaestus Club Novella - Plot & Excerpts
When he’d had Caro’s full attention, he had not used it as often as he’d liked. Bringing her to such a public place would expose her to the gossip and ridicule of her former friends. He abhorred the shallow ugliness of polite society, and it pained him that their relationship might cause her pain. But when he’d left her at home and escorted another, he’d felt even worse. When compared to Caro, any female he chose seemed dull company and even an innocent evening without her felt like a betrayal. When he returned to her on the following night, he could not help but tell her where he had gone and who he had been with. It was almost as if he needed absolution. But none of that mattered anymore. Now that he had lost her, there was no reason not to attend a play. He glanced at his current companion, who must have been a disappointment to the scandal mongers. They’d been expecting an opera dancer, or a notorious courtesan. Instead, he had made the most innocuous choice imaginable.
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