By Cecilia Grant
A seductive good looks turns the tables on a gentleman gaming for the guiltiest of pleasures during this wealthy and sensual Regency romance from liked newcomer Cecilia Grant.
Lydia Slaughter is familiar with the video games males play—both out and in of the bed room. no longer afraid to bend the principles to fit her wishes, she fleeces Will Blackshear outright. The Waterloo hero had his personal bold time table for the gaming tables of London’s gentlemen’s golf equipment. yet now he antes up for a guess of wits and hope with Lydia, the streetwise temptress who retains him at arm’s length.
A saved lady in determined straits, Lydia has a pointy brain and a head for numbers. She gambles at the sly, hoping to win sufficient to say her independence. An alliance with Will on the tables could be a profitable proposition for them either. however the association consists of dicey odds with emerging stakes, sweetened with unstated promise of fleshly delights. And any sleight of hand might locate their hearts making a bet on whatever neither can come up with the money for to possibility: love.
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Eat," he said, his tone brooking no argument. "Do not stand on ceremony. " Mortification made Ria's eyes slide away from West's direct gaze. She stared at her plate, then her lap. Her fingers loosened around her spoon enough to allow her to set it aside. "Never say that something so trifling as a lapse in good manners makes you come undone," West goaded her gently. He regarded the warm muffin and strips of crisp bacon on his plate. " Watching her out of the corner of his eye, he split the muffin and lightly spread sweet butter on the halves.
You do not know her as I do. " West chose not to argue the point. She was right—he did not know Jane—but he was also right, characterizing Jane as a child was not helpful. "What is it you would have me do, Miss Ashby? Have we finally arrived at the reason you set yourself in my path yesterday? You might have ridden to town with Tenley and his brood if you had only meant to attend the service and inform me of my responsibilities to you as guardian. " It was almost what he had expected she would say.
West had taken great pains to see as little of his father as was possible. That had been the duke's wish as well. Neither of them had been unhappy with the arrangement, and no attempt had ever been made to alter it. Still, his father had loomed rather larger than life. It was not possible to be unaware of him, given his services to the Crown. He might have been prime minister had it not been for Liverpool's deft handling of the opposition during the war with Napoleon. The defeat in the parliament had rankled him, West knew, and he imagined his father had been plotting a new stratagem when the cancer struck and made this final ascent to power impossible.
