“It was a bedroom, after all. The proper form would have been to ask Esmeralda instead. But Ophelia hadn’t hesitated. She didn’t ask to be here, she was being kept from leaving, so the normal rules of etiquette could be suspended for the duration as far as she was concerned. And that was all the reasoning and logic she needed to proceed down the path of ruination, as it were.The thought amused her, since she didn’t for a moment think that any such thing would happen if she dallied a bit with the... next Duke of Norford. They were too secluded here. And he’d seen to it that she had a proper chaperone. So no one would ever know.She might have to mention it to her future husband, if she was lacking her virginity, but she could do so without providing names. If she was lucky enough to find a man who really loved her and wasn’t just smitten by her face, then she didn’t think it would matter all that much, and if it did, well then, he wouldn’t really be in love with her, would he?How easy it was to make excuses when something she really wanted was involved.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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