A Friendship In Ruins – Chasity Bowlin

Miss Harcourt was a woman of intelligence and maturity. She had managed a household, understood responsibility, and conducted herself with dignity in circumstances that would have unbalanced many. Such a woman would not entrust her future to uncertainty when stability lay plainly within reach. He did not consider this vanity.

It was merely the natural order of things. Rank, estate, and consequence were not ornaments; they were assurances. They represented continuity, protection, and the structure upon which families—indeed, their entire society— endured. A sensible woman recognized the distinction between sentiment and security. Miss Harcourt had been given the opportunity to alter their terms if she wished. And, as expected, she had declined to do so.

He stepped out into the afternoon air with the quiet conviction that the matter, in all meaningful respects, was settled. 1kitap1.com/en Chapter Ten drian knew the precise moment Eleanor had withdrawn from him the day prior. It had not been dramatic. She had not recoiled, nor spoken a word of censure.

Yet when she had seen Marklynne standing upon the steps, something within her had closed as surely as a door locked and barred. He had felt it in the way she stepped away after he helped her down, in the careful composure that had settled over her features, and in the quiet finality with which she had placed her hand upon the other man’s sleeve.

When she’d walked up those steps with him, into the interior of Harcourt House, she had not looked back. A telling gesture. The memory lingered with uncomfortable persistence as he made his way along Piccadilly that morning, the brisk air doing little to cool the unease that had settled beneath his ribs. He had known from the outset that his sudden declaration would not be met with ready warmth.

Eleanor was not a woman to be swept away by impulse. She valued steadiness, reason, propriety — all the qualities Marklynne appeared to embody with effortless precision. His lack of action over the past years marked him as unreliable to her mind, suggesting that his affections were changeable.

No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review. 1kitap1.com/en Also by Chasity Bowlin PARANORMAL HISTORICAL ROMANCE: THE VICTORIAN GOTHIC COLLECTION House of Shadows Veil of Shadows Passage of Shadows DARK REGENCY The Haunting of a Duke The Redemption of a Rogue The Enticement of an Earl A Love So Dark A Passion So Strong A Heart So Wicked An Affair So Destined REGENCY ROMANCE: STANDALONE The Beast of Bath Worth the Wait A Little Christmas Magic A Mistletoe Mishap A Private Wager Spellbound Between a Duke and a Hard Place THE LYON’S DEN CONNECTED WORLD Fall Of The Lyon Tamed By The Lyon Lady Luck and The Lyon The Lyon, The Liar and The Scandalous Wardrobe THE LOST LORDS SERIES: The Lost Lord of Castle Black The Vanishing of Lord Vale The Missing Marquess of Althorn The Resurrection of Lady Ramsleigh The Mystery of Miss Mason The Awakening of Lord Ambrose A Midnight Clear: A Lost Lords Holiday Novella Hyacinth: A Regency Romance Novella The Pirate’s Bluestocking (Pirates of Britannia) THE HELLION CLUB SERIES: A Rogue to Remember Barefoot In Hyde Park What Happens In Piccadilly When An Earl Loves A Governess The Duke’s Magnificent Obsession The Governess Diaries A Dangerous Passion The Lady Confesses Has Anybody Seen My Earl (Coming Soon) All I Want For Christmas Is You: A Regency Historical Romance Novella Making Spirits Bright: A Regency Historical Romance Novella The Boys of Summer When the Night Closes In The Lady In White And the collections: A Wraith At Midnight: A Historical Romance Collection THE DUNNE FAMILY SERIES The Last Offer The First Proposal The Other Wife The Late Husband The Plain Bride The Perfect Groom The Scandalous Elopement The Inconvenient Compromise (preorder) AND THE WYLDE WALLFLOWERS…

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