A Gentleman Undone
“There’d been a harvest in progress then, and weather suitable for walking from the manor to the village to the remotest of the tenant farms. So she’d done each morning, half dazed with the novelty of a gentleman who strove to please his mistress in bed.Lydia caught the windborne edges of her cloak and tugged them together in front. Two nights she’d been here now, and the guests had come in yesterday. She hadn’t wanted him to touch her either night. The rash mauling hunger that had possessed her..., that last week in London, had apparently not made the journey to Essex. And so she’d gone to bed ahead of him both nights and feigned deep sleep when he’d crawled in alongside her. Little chance of pulling off that ploy a third night. A man didn’t keep a mistress to watch her sleep.Her stockings were damp above her half-boots. She’d walked the opposite direction from last September’s rambles, out across the lawn that fronted the house and into tall grass wet with last night’s rain.MoreLess
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