Wild Jasmine
“Skye and Adam de Marisco, forced by circumstance to relent their decision in the matter of Sybilla Gordon, had allowed the girl to return to Greenwood House temporarily.“It is simply not proper that she remain at Lynmouth while Lord Leslie is there,” Skye told her husband.Sybilla Gordon now stood before her father in the library of Greenwood. Her grandparents and her mother were also present, as was her hated rival. If they had expected her to be chastened by all that had transpired earlier, th...ey were mistaken.“I want the truth, Sybilla,” Alex Gordon said in a hard voice that Sybilla had never heard him use toward her before.“What truth, Papa?” she answered sweetly.“Why did ye go to Lord Leslie’s room early this morning?” the Earl of BrocCairn demanded. “You certainly hae no business there.”Sybilla bit her lip in vexation. Her father was correct. No virgin of good family and breeding would go to a man’s bedchamber, yet she had.“Well, Sybilla? Hae ye no answer for me?”MoreLess
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