![]() ![]() Really? Lady Harrington asked, peering out the window. A few moments later, his father emerged from the same hedge maze, looked about him, then retrieved Lady Milbome, his current paramour, from the bushes.Įvidently my mother has acquired a new lover, Jordan drawled sarcastically. Mild cynicism marred the youthful handsomeness of his lean features as Jordan watched his mother and her newest lover cross the lawns and saunter into the arbor. Their laughter drifted up through Jordan’s open window as they linked arms. A moment later Lord Harrington emerged, retying his neckcloth. Casting a brief, furtive look about her, she straightened the bodice of her dress and smoothed her heavy dark hair into some semblance of order. As he gazed at the hedge maze below, he saw his mother emerge from the shrubbery. Jordan Addison Matthew Townsende, the future Duke of Hawthorne, seemed not to hear her as he looked out across the grounds of the palatial estate that would, upon his father’s death, become his. What do you see that interests you more than I? Lady Catherine Harrington asked as she wrapped the sheet around herself and walked over to the window. Frowning slightly, she studied the darkly handsome youth of eighteen who was standing at the window of his bedchamber, his shoulder propped against the window frame, looking out across the back lawns, where a party in honor of his mother’s birthday was in progress. ![]() THE VOLUPTUOUS BLOND WOMAN lifted up on an elbow and pulled a sheet to her breasts. ![]()
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