Secrets of a Scandalous Bride (2010)
“Who was ill? She was certain it was Rowland. Her fingers were numb and in her haste she dropped the napkin on the tray she was carrying. Breathless, she stooped to retrieve it from the pea-gravel path.
The royal mews were awash in lantern light. An army of stable hands, coachmen, hostlers, and young boys ran in every direction, tending to the hordes of horses stabled in splendor there. She found the Earl of Wallace in the rear of the stables, surrounded by a half dozen men Elizabeth recognized from Manning’s.
“Ah, Elizabeth,” he said, eyeing her with a smile, “you’ve brought the tea?”
“What is she doing here?” Rowland ground out.
Oh…he was not ill.
“Asked her to bring something for Lefroy,” Michael replied, nonplussed. “Is there a problem?”
Her gaze dropped to the grizzled man lying in a bed of straw, in the middle of the covey of men. “Mr. Lefroy,” she whispered. “What has happened to you?”
The small man looked far older than she remembered. “Oh, it’s you, lovey.
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