Duke of Darkness (THE FOUR DUKES #1) by Violet Hamers EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Violet Hamers
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“Did she think a mask would truly hide who she was?” Lady Clarissa
Stanley chortled, eyeing up Alice Knight’s beautifully designed
pearl and mother-of-pearl mask. “No pretty picture would hide
those wide curves she calls hips!”
Alice Knight, middle daughter to the Viscount Hillburn, felt her porcelain
cheeks flush as she heard the group of ladies beside her erupt into a chorus
of loud laughter.
“I beg your pardon, ladies?” she asked boldly, whirling around to face them.
She smiled prettily at them all and then leaned forward with a finger
touching the shell of her ear. “I could not hear you clearly. Perhaps you
could be a little more bold with your slander?”
Alice stared back coolly at the group of thin, pretty, finely dressed ladies
who had been talking about her. All eight eyes glared back at her,
embarrassed for being called out so blatantly.
“Why are you even here?” Clarissa asked, sneering down at Alice’s ivorywhite silk dress.
It was June, the beginning of the third Season Alice promised her father,
and as she had been bid to do, she had attended the first ball of the Season
with Lydia. It was a costume-masked ball at the London residence of an
earl, and she had chosen the swan as her inspiration.
Nothing pompous, unlike the great feathers and furs the women making fun
of her were wearing. Instead, just a simple dress with a few ruffles near the
hem to mimic wings. The long, fitted sleeve came to points at the middle
fingers of her hands, and the shoulders sloped slightly, creating a design
that made her neck look longer, and slimmer. Her mask was also white,
with just a black arrow on the tip of the nose.
“I was invited,” Alice replied.
Though, it was a lie. At least in the beginning. Lydia, her older sister, had
called in a few favors to get the two of them invited to the ball.
“Please.” Persimmon Duport tsked, shaking her head. “We know better than
that. Still having trouble finding a husband, darling?”
Alice’s temper rose a few degrees as Persimmon gave her a fake pout. It
was no secret that she had ended more than just a couple of courtships over
the last year—with Lord Asherby being the latest one. Word had got out
about her little outburst—of course, without the explanation as to what had
caused it—and it had only served as fodder for her enemies.
“Unlike you, you simple creature, I would be quite content without a man to
boss me about,” Alice replied with venom.
“Alice!”
Lydia’s shrill tone caused Alice to wince, and she begrudgingly looked to
her left to see her older sister nearly right beside her. She looked as livid as
she looked beautiful in her teal chiffon dress, stylish updo, and teal
feathered mask, and Alice knew she was in for it. She had been warned,
many times, that her temper was becoming an issue.
It was a new development, this foul mood. Alice had normally been a
sweet, rather optimistic person, but in the last six months, that part of her
had seemed to wither under the growing pressures of Society.
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