An Unwanted Wallflower For The Duke – Harriet Caves

“There are possibilities.” As if on cue, a gentleman began making his way toward them. Lord Avery. He was fine-featured, fashionably attired, and clearly of respectable breeding. But even as he greeted them with a bow and a charming smile, Elizabeth felt the same faint sense of disappointment she always did. Like she was trying to summon lightning from a candle.

Still, she smiled. “Lady Elizabeth, might I have the next dance?” Lord Avery asked. Elizabeth offered him her card. “Yes, my lord. Thank you.” He made the notation and bowed again before retreating to await the next set. Elizabeth’s smile faded slightly the moment he turned away. “You’ll let me know if he bores you to tears?” Marianne teased. “I already know,” Elizabeth muttered. “But I must keep trying.” Her skin prickled. Alasdair was watching. She couldn’t see him clearly, but she could feel it—that molten gaze pinned to her with palpable heat.

Her stomach flipped, and a flush crept up her throat. Instead of shrinking from it, she used it. Elizabeth turned toward Lord Avery with a coy tilt of her head, lowering her lashes as she spoke to him softly. She touched her dance card with deliberate grace. Not too much. Just enough. Subtlety, after all, was the art of making one man think he had your full attention while another burned with the knowledge that he didn’t. Back where Alasdair stood, he was still mired in the same storm of frustration and longing that had plagued him for weeks.

His thoughts chased themselves in circles. Elizabeth, the kiss, the damnable dresses she wore, the way she didn’t even look at him when she entered the room. It was unbearable. Seth quietly reached for the glass in Alasdair’s hand. “Pardon me, Sandy boy,” Seth said gently, “but I think I’d better take this before you shatter it and cause a scene.” Alasdair released the glass with reluctance. “He’s nothin’ but a fop,” he muttered darkly, his eyes still fixed on Lord Avery’s slim figure as he danced with Elizabeth.

“You know that he’s not the problem,” Seth replied. “You are. Admit it. None of those men could ever be enough for your dear Lady Elizabeth. Not to you.” Alasdair growled low in his throat. “Oh, sod off.” “I’d like to,” Seth said dryly. “But I can’t leave you alone like this. You’re liable to challenge someone to a duel over the last dance card slot.” The music changed, and Elizabeth’s dance with Lord Avery came to a graceful end.

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⇧ 1kitap1.com/en About the Book “Look at ye, me lady. Still as bonnie as ever. Like nae Scotsman ever ravished ye with his mouth in a darkened room.” Desperate to escape her cruel stepmother, Lady Elizabeth needs a husband, fast. But as a wallflower, she’s invisible to men. Until she crosses paths with the ton’s most notorious duke.

To clear his father’s name, Duke Alasdair must forge alliances within the ton. Yet his Highland blood and rough manners make him unwelcome. Which is precisely why he’s not the match Elizabeth seeks. So he proposes a bold bargain: he’ll help her attract suitors, and she’ll teach him etiquette. Only, each glance, each touch, makes it harder to remember she isn’t his, and harder to let her go…

1kitap1.com/en Before You Start Reading… Here is Alasdair’s Prequel Chapter which will help you understand and visualize the story inside my book better. Many of my readers requested it and that’s why I am giving it away for free! I believe you will LOVE IT! It’s not mandatory to read it, but it will be really helpful if it’s your first time with this book.

Read his story here. Just click on the image above! ⇧ 1kitap1.com/en “S Chapter One tand straighter. Chin up,” Lady Grisham barked. Elizabeth Brighton, the Marquess of Grisham’s second daughter, tried her best to obey her stepmother. She pulled her shoulders back while still under the unforgiving and ever-assessing eye of Lady Grisham. The chandeliers glittered above like captured starlight, casting golden reflections across polished floors and silk gowns, but the beauty only made her more uneasy.

Everything shimmered and sparkled, and yet all it stirred in her was dread. Other young ladies might have seen the ballroom as a place of enchantment, but to Elizabeth, it was little short of a waking nightmare. “Has anyone told you that you slouch like a milkmaid, Elizabeth?” her stepmother asked, sounding perpetually aggravated with her. To be fair, Lady Grisham gave her own daughter—Elizabeth’s younger half-sister—the same treatment. “Wilhelmina, do compose yourself.

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• Pages: 453
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