To Seduce a Scoundrel
“After his hostess stuttered her way through their greeting and his host glanced nervously away while Ambrose executed a formal bow, he thought he’d seen the worst of it. Now, however, with three hundred of the ton’s most elite citizens staring wide-eyed at him, he was quite…perturbed. Why had he decided to suffer this again? Oh, yes, Philippa, and her peculiar absence from Society the past three days. Since their night at Lockwood House and beyond. He’d grown concerned.
He scanned the ballroom ...for her form and found her standing off to the side with two other young women. She might be the only person in the room who wasn’t slack-jawed. His lips curved into a smile. But he didn’t move toward her. Yet. He had to do this correctly.
He searched the cavernous room with its fussy decorations and cloying scent of lilies for the tall, blond Saxton. There, in the opposite corner, naturally. Which meant he had to cross an entire ballroom of gaping, prurient ninnyhammers in order for Saxton to formally introduce him to Philippa.MoreLess
He scanned the ballroom ...for her form and found her standing off to the side with two other young women. She might be the only person in the room who wasn’t slack-jawed. His lips curved into a smile. But he didn’t move toward her. Yet. He had to do this correctly.
He searched the cavernous room with its fussy decorations and cloying scent of lilies for the tall, blond Saxton. There, in the opposite corner, naturally. Which meant he had to cross an entire ballroom of gaping, prurient ninnyhammers in order for Saxton to formally introduce him to Philippa.MoreLess
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