Always a Gentleman, Never a Duke (DUELING FOR DUKES #3) by Jessie Clever EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Jessie Clever
- Language: English
- Genre: Historical Romance
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Lady Eloise Bounds wanted to say something achingly romantic about
the night they first met, something about how they were drawn
together by moonlight. And while they did, in fact, meet under the moon,
she was fairly certain at the time he was a ghoul come to steal her soul, and
there was nothing at all romantic about that.
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She grabbed a branch of the nearest bush, as if its beleaguered limbs
held impenetrable power, and pulled it in front of her to shield her body.
“Stop!” Her voice was loud in the quiet of the night, and she cringed,
her eyes going up to the empty and dark windows that surrounded the
Mayfair courtyard into which she had slipped only minutes before, certain
at any moment that light would appear in one of them and she would be
caught. She had gone to so much trouble to escape the house without
raising alarm, and now she had nearly given herself away with a cry of
fright. For she was frightened.
The creature that stood in front of her appeared to have the qualities of a
man, but his eyes glowed red like a demon. She was not of the spiritual sort
and hardly of the religious sort, so for her mind to instantly assume the
creature in front of her to be of demonic origin spoke to just how ghoulish
he appeared.
He held up his hands then, hands that looked perfectly human. She
could tell because he wasn’t wearing gloves, and the moonlight traced each
curve of finger as an artist might use a brush against the canvas,
highlighting just the right bits for maximum effect. Her heart thundered in
her chest, and her arms shook so that the leaves of the limb she still held
clenched in her hands rustled, and yet she felt the odd romantic stirring at
the sight of his long fingers.
“I won’t hurt you.” His voice was soft, much calmer than hers had been,
and he kept his hands pushed out in front of him as though to reassure her.
“That’s precisely what someone with nefarious intent would say.”
His hands faltered, and there was the suggestion of a smile in his voice,
but the shadows around him were too thick for her to be certain if he did
indeed smile. “Do you often encounter gentlemen with nefarious intent at
midnight in a Mayfair courtyard?”
“I don’t know that you’re a gentleman.” She pulled the limb closer to
her chest, bracing it just beneath her chin.
His head tilted ever so much before he began to lower his hands. “If I
may,” he said, but his hands kept moving before she gave permission, and
she watched him carefully.
He took a step toward her, and she pushed the limb away from her like a
sword. He stopped immediately, hands once more in the air, and silence
vibrated between them. He didn’t advance though, and after a moment, his
hands started to lower again.
Her heart pounded, but the limb had stopped shaking, and she wondered
why. Why did this stranger with demon eyes cause such calm to wash over
her?
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