“And are you trying to tell me you didn’t want me to touch you?” Don’t think for one second that I didn’t know its intended destination.” I felt your hand drifting from my shoulder.
His face looked like it had been carved from marble with his mouth clamped so tightly that white lines had formed around the ridges and his eyes had transformed from warm, blue candle flames into hard, cold chips of ice. “I came out here to see the gardens, not have you maul me in the shrubbery.” Why did he, like all men, assume her agreement to go into the gardens translated into permission for him to touch her person-specifically her chest? “You have to ask?” Brooke crossed her arms.
“What was that for?” Gateway demanded, rubbing his cheek. “You deserved it, you lecher,” Brooke Banks exclaimed, scrambling to get off the secluded bench where she had been kissing Benjamin Collins, Duke of Gateway. Thirteen days, a handful of kisses and one scandalous situation later, Andrew and Brooke will have to choose to stick to their original plans, or decide if a life together is worth the risk. Widely known for her tendency to flout the rules, she suspects nothing when a handsome stranger appears on her doorstep. She came to London to have a good time, and that’s exactly what she’s doing. But, in order to gain his fortune he must do only one simple thing: ruin an innocent young lady’s reputation enough to make her flee to America.īrooke Banks isn’t interested in marriage, or so she thinks. With no other means for an income, the impoverished Andrew Black, Earl of Townson, makes an agreement that will put a definite end to his eight year poverty streak. The innocent he's selected, however, has no plans to settle for anything less than marriage and will go to almost any length to secure him. Will he secure his future by ruining hers, or will she ruin his plans by securing him?Ī new twist on the old fortune hunter plot puts an impoverished earl in a position to gain his fortune only by ruining an innocent's reputation without offering marriage. I love how she started busting on Andrew right away. Will he go through with the plan to ruin her? What is going to happen? She has no money either but they start having feelings for each other. He tells her right away that he has no money.
He wants revenge so he gets Andrew to ruin her publicly in exchange for getting his father's estate back.Īndrew meets Brooke and they start courting. He wanted to have his way with her and she said no. She meets a man named Benjamin Collins, Duke of Gateway. Brooke cannot fit into the way society works. Brooke and her family came to London to visit family and try to find husbands for the girls.
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