SHE DANCED ALONE IN THE EMPTY BALLROOM AFTER MIDNIGHT-UNAWARE THE DUKE WAS WATCHING

he did not write anything and went to bed.

He slept a little, and when he woke, he had decided what to do. Over the next two days, he found reasons to be in rooms where she was, managing lines carefully so her aunt and cousins wouldn’t notice.

Most of all, he did not want her to feel hunted, so he moved through the house the way a man moves through a continue reading …