By Amelia Grey
What is a roguish younger nobleman alleged to do with a shockingly gorgeous younger ward?
The Duke of Blakewell believes he'd higher marry her off as quickly as attainable, earlier than he offers in to temptation himself...
But Henrietta does not desire a husband— she desires her independence...
certain that she consists of a curse that killed her prior guardians, Henrietta simply wishes the duke to signal over her inheritance earlier than anything bad befalls him...
In a second of ardour, they turn into scandalously entangled, and by surprise the duke needs to take Henrietta's curse heavily, and he or she needs to take drastic measures to avoid wasting the only guy she might love...
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Obviously the duke didn’t have a well-organized secretary, or could it be that he didn’t have one at all? No, he was a duke. He probably had more than one secretary taking care of him. Henrietta remembered him telling her that a lady wasn’t capable of managing an inheritance. What nerve he had to say that when his desk looked like a winter storm had hit it! A Duke to Die For 37 Henrietta had no idea how someone as important as a duke could be so neglectful. If this were her desk and she didn’t go crazy from the disorderly look of the stacks of mail, she’d surely die of curiosity from wondering who had written her and what they had to say.
It was hard not to believe in curses when she had seen them come true. Henrietta had never forgotten the words of the old woman with whom she’d stayed until she could be taken to her first guardian after her parents died. Mrs. Goolsby had been a frightful person who didn’t try to hide her fear of Henrietta and the curse she said followed Henrietta. Over the years, Henrietta had tried to forget the sharp-faced woman and her talk of curses, ghosts, and death, but it was difficult when, just as Mrs.
Mrs. Ellsworth and Ashby remained in the doorway of the drawing room, speaking softly to each other and occasionally looking in her direction. Henrietta couldn’t hear what they said, but she was certain they were discussing exactly what they should do with her. ” 30 Amelia Grey This wasn’t the first time she’d found herself in a situation where the staff was perplexed by her arrival. It had happened to her far too many times. They didn’t know what to do. But Henrietta did. It was time to take control of the situation and put order back into her life.
