The Lady Gets Lucky by Joanna Shupe EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
- Author: Joanna Shupe
- Language: English
- Genre: American Historical Romance
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Chateau de Falaise
Newport, 1895
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“You are the most adorably charming man,” the older woman said as she
patted Kit’s arm. “This house party would be dreadfully dull without you.”
Since the end of dinner service, Kit had held court in the drawing room,
with no less than eight pairs of eyes on him at all times. Over coffee and
port, he joked and smiled, nodded and winked. Dazzled everyone in
attendance without breaking a sweat.
In fact, charm was his only strength. He’d spent a lifetime perfecting a
genuine-sounding laugh, a grin to win over the hardest of hearts. He knew
how to put others at ease and make them feel important. Now he did this
without even thinking, the effort so rote he’d forgotten why he started doing
it in the first place.
And he’d started to hate himself for it.
“While all that is undoubtedly true,” he said to the small group of
mothers and chaperones, “I fear it is time for me to return to my room. If
you ladies will excuse me.” He inclined his head and stepped back.
“But it’s early yet,” one of the women protested, even though most
everyone had retired hours ago.
Kit let his lips curl with a hint of wicked intent. “I never said I intended
to sleep.”
They tittered and fanned themselves—as he knew they would—which
gave him the opportunity to slip away. The corridors were blessedly empty
and the farther he got from the others, the more he was able to relax.
When he finally reached his guest room, he unknotted his bow tie and
splashed bourbon in a crystal tumbler, not stopping until the glass was
nearly full. The silence calmed him, a soothing respite from talking for six
hours straight.
You have no one to blame but yourself.
True. In the beginning, his finely honed skills were his armor, a way to
ensure he was never lonely or felt out of place ever again. But the problem
with armor was twofold: it was hard to shed and he was vulnerable without
it. Who was he underneath? The possibilities were too terrifying to
contemplate.
A quiet knock sounded on his door. A tap, actually, as if someone was
trying to get his attention while not causing too much noise. It was a
familiar technique, one he’d employed often—as recently as this afternoon,
in fact.
He hadn’t been in the house even a full day when one of the chaperones
invited him to her bedchamber, asking for help with her window casing.
There’d been no problem with the window, of course, but Kit had provided
other kinds of help, the kind that required little clothing and a flat surface.
The interlude had been enjoyable for both of them, but she’d worn him out.
Any more window-casing issues would need to wait until the morning.
A second knock, slightly louder this time, had him striding to the door.
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