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daring deception [070-2.9]

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Frederica was so angry. How dare he betroth himself to her an advertise
openly for a mistress!

"It is the outside of enough that you've hired a ... a fancy woman in the first
place, lord. But that you would actually prefer children to result from such a
union.

She headed for the library door.

"I believe I've heard quite enough, Lord Sea brooke," said scathingly over her
shoulder.

With two long 'strides, Lord Sea brooke himself between her and the door.

"Miss Cherrystone, I'm not sure what have in your bonnet, but I beg you to sit
and hear me out. I'll not have you scandal about the streets of London have
been at such pains to keep this quiet."

CHAPTER ONE

GAVIN ALEXANDER, lately 6th Earl of Sea brooke, observed the growing
dismay on the face of the young man before him and sighed. He should have
known his own incredible luck over the past few hours was too good to be
true, and so it apparently was. The lad couldn't pay up.

"I'll accept your vowels, of course, Chesterton," Lord Sea brooke said
brusquely. Frustrated as he was, it was not in him to humiliate the boy
publicly.

"You may redeem them later in the week."

Sir Thomas chewed his lower lip, glancing quickly about at the interested
spectators who had gathered to watch the final stages of the evening's
deepest game, before meeting his opponent's eye.

"Might I have a word with you privately, sir?" he asked in a shaky undertone.

Sea brooke inclined his head, masking fierce disappointment with the lightly
amused nonchalance that came so easily now after years of practice.

"You've all had your entertainment,"

he said to their audience.

"Our terms of payment can be of no interest to you
whatever." Though there was nothing overtly threatening in either words or