A Most Scandalous Proposal
“Well-wishers crowded her toward Clivesden, whose fingers curled about her arm to pull her close. She was too numb to protest, too numb to move from the spot.
Nausea roiled in her gut. If she took so much as a single step, she might double over and spill the contents of her stomach all over the pale rose chiffon of her ball gown.
Mama and Papa glowed with pride, but Julia’s most pressing concern was her sister. She threw Sophia a glance of desperation.
Her sister’s blue eyes glittered coldly in response. That expression of awful betrayal—rosy cheeks turned to chalk, lips pursed, chin puckered—engraved itself on Julia’s heart. “I never meant for this to happen,” she wailed, but shock turned her voice thin and reedy. Her words were lost in the uproar.
The news was spreading—it must have already extended to the other side of the ballroom. By morning, word would have reached the ears of even the most reclusive members of society: The infamous St. Claire sisters, both betrothed in a single night.
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