Ravishing in Red
“First, she used logic that was so damned good it cornered him. The Domino had arranged the meeting with her, not a man, and would disappear if she were not there. Also, she was the one who would know if the man who came was really the Domino.
After grinding him down with her good sense, she had then turned her feminine wiles on him. A promise had been extracted at the moment of defeat, when he was too preoccupied with pleasure to care about the morrow.
“It would be best if you are not with me at first,” she said as their carriage approached Covent Garden. “He might bolt if he sees you.”
He did not give a damn if the man bolted. She was excited and optimistic, and certain the day would end with her father’s good name restored. He was not convinced it would go that way at all.
He was going to regret not burning that letter the way every instinct had urged. He might regret even more allowing her to be here today. But she wanted to know what he knew, all of it, because she still did not t...rust him to give appropriate weight to the evidence of her father’s innocence when he heard it.MoreLess
After grinding him down with her good sense, she had then turned her feminine wiles on him. A promise had been extracted at the moment of defeat, when he was too preoccupied with pleasure to care about the morrow.
“It would be best if you are not with me at first,” she said as their carriage approached Covent Garden. “He might bolt if he sees you.”
He did not give a damn if the man bolted. She was excited and optimistic, and certain the day would end with her father’s good name restored. He was not convinced it would go that way at all.
He was going to regret not burning that letter the way every instinct had urged. He might regret even more allowing her to be here today. But she wanted to know what he knew, all of it, because she still did not t...rust him to give appropriate weight to the evidence of her father’s innocence when he heard it.MoreLess
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