Duke With A Duchess – Scarlett Scott

“It is good of you to agree to accompany me to the Children’s Foundling Hospital,” Lady Verity said with a sympathetic smile as their carriage rumbled over rutted London roads to the orphanage that Everett’s sister sponsored. Lady Verity was once again dressed in black, the locket she always wore peeping from beneath her wrap. Sybil found it curious. Verity seemed to be perpetually dressed in mourning. However, neither the dowager nor Everett was, and to her knowledge, there had been no recent deaths in the family.

“It’s hardly a chore,” she demurred. “I adore children and always have done, and the opportunity to get to know you better was impossible to resist.” Sybil carefully refrained from mentioning Everett. She didn’t want to dwell on the state of their marriage. Her hope at his rescue of her mother from Eastlake Hall had waned.

She was nothing more than an unwanted obligation to him, a woman with whom he might slake his manly needs. She could have been anyone to him. The thought was a bitter one, and not without an accompanying pang of resentment. “The children will be most pleased to have a new face,” Lady Verity was saying, dragging Sybil’s thoughts from her husband. “I fear I am quite old news. Do you sing?” Sybil winced. “When I have occasion, though I cannot claim much talent in that regard, I fear.

It was never one of the feminine arts that I excelled at.” “You need not worry.” Her sister-in-law grinned. “The children cannot discern the difference between lovely singing and hoarse warbling. I’m dreadful at singing myself.” Sybil chuckled, charmed by Everett’s sister’s easy nature. It rather reminded her of the glimpses of the man he had shown her during their courtship—swift to smile, to tease.

With a kindness and warmth that were not always easy to find amongst people of their set. “Well, in that case, I reckon I am in excellent company,” she said. They traveled on in silence until Lady Verity spoke again. “How did you meet my brother, if I may ask?” Sybil was surprised at the question, but then she recalled that her husband had kept her a secret from his family.

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Thank you for cheering me on. Just don’t ever read this. XO OceanofPDF.com S CHAPTER 1 ybil tipped the pitcher toward her sleeping husband’s head. A stream of cold, clear water poured forth, landing directly on the thick mahogany locks that were a great source of pride and vanity for him, splashing over his unfairly handsome face. It wasn’t the confrontational moment she had initially envisioned when she had decided to attend the wicked house party he and his chums were presently holding at Wingfield Hall, but it was satisfying, nonetheless.

He sputtered and jolted awake, sitting up as water sluiced down, his bedclothes falling in his lap. His chest was bare. Sybil intentionally averted her gaze. Because whilst the Duke of Riverdale was a terrible, faithless husband, his body, like his face, was as perfectly proportioned as any marble from antiquity. At least he was the only one currently occupying his bed, and given the indecent nature of the present gathering, she hadn’t been certain what to expect.

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