A Lord’s Scandalous Bet by Emily Honeyfield EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Emily Honeyfield
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“Lady Genevieve Westbrook,” she said with a shy smile. “It’s a pleasure to
meet you.”
Her heart throbbed steadily, its rhythm in her throat, and she let her breath
out slowly. It’s all right, Genevieve. You’re doing fine.
“Lady Margaret Winthrope,” the young woman replied. Her green eyes
shone with eagerness, and her words poured out like water. “And this is
Lady Victoria Radcliff, Lady Penelope Channing, and Lady Elizabeth
Beaufort. We’ve simply been dying to meet you!”
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“Oh?”
Genevieve let her gaze rove across the excitable faces before her, her fan
hovering just in front of her face. She’d been so nervous walking into the
ball that she felt sick to her stomach, and having a gaggle of giggles
surrounding her didn’t seem to help at all. They seemed friendly enough
and were certainly beautiful and bright, but her anxiety threatened to
overwhelm her. This was so different from anything she had experienced
before. Though her father’s advisors had offered her tidbits of advice,
nothing could have fully prepared her for a true society ball.
“Oh yes,” Lady Victoria replied. “Why, you and your father have been the
talk of London since you arrived. We’ve all been so impatient for the
beginning of the season so that we would finally have the opportunity to
meet you.”
Oh dear! That’s a sure sign I’m going to disappoint everyone.
“It’s not often we get fresh blood,” Lady Elizabeth said, the least excited of
them. “It seems as if everyone pounces whenever there is a new face.”
“With a new story to tell,” Lady Penelope added.
Genevieve noticed their eyes drift to the ugly scar that marred her cheek,
and she raised her fan a little higher. Even without such a disfigurement, she
would have been nervous, but with it, she was positively terrified.
This ballroom cupped beauty in its hand, the most attractive and wealthiest
people of London mixing together. Still, these particular young ladies
seemed sweet enough, even in their eagerness to know more about her. She
inhaled deeply and reminded herself that not everyone was a bad egg, as
her mother used to say.
“I’m not sure I have many stories to tell,” Genevieve said.
“But you grew up in Africa, didn’t you?” Lady Margaret said.
All four women were wide of eye and leaning in close as if Genevieve
really were a fascinating specimen indeed. She fanned herself, hoping to
cool her reddening cheeks.
Making friends that evening was imperative,
and these ladies seemed as good as any, but part of Genevieve longed for
her much-loved African plains and the home in which she’d loved her nowpassed mother.
“Well, yes,” she said, offering them a smile. “But it was normal to me, you
see. I suppose—”
“Did you ever see a lion?” Lady Victoria asked.
“Or a giraffe?” Lady Penelope added.
“And are the people really savages?” Lady Victoria said.
“I … oh.” Genevieve giggled, looking down at her feet for the briefest of
moments. She had expected to be questioned, but this was a positive
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