Her Runaway Duke (NOBLE PURSUITS #1) by Ellie St. Clair EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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“You cannot marry him. I will not allow it.”
Siena could only smile ruefully in response.
When Eliza crossed her arms and set her shoulders as though
ready to do battle, it was very hard to say no to her declaration.
But the only other option was to deny her parents. Siena straightened
from her slump and sent a regretful smile toward her friend, who stood a
few feet away, her lips pressed together in determination.
“If only you were the one who was making the decision,” Siena
countered as softly as she could.
“I have no idea how your parents could expect you to marry a man so…
distasteful. Unsettling. Old. He must be older than your father. And the way
he looks at you—”
“Is how a husband is allowed to look at his wife, I would suspect,”
Siena said, although she couldn’t help but shiver at the thought of Lord
Mulberry touching her, let alone—no. She couldn’t think of it, or she would
never get through this day.
It wasn’t his age that bothered her, although that didn’t help matters. It
was how he unnerved her and the discomfort that attached itself to her the
moment he walked into a room. Eliza wasn’t wrong. His name alone
flooded her with unease.
“I suppose the only positive of this situation is that he might not last
much longer,” Eliza said as she stood from her seat in the armchair before
the fire and walked over to stand behind Siena, meeting her gaze in the
mirror of the vanity.
Siena’s lady’s maid had already come and gone, having prepared her for
the morning wedding ceremony, and only Eliza remained, refusing to leave
Siena’s side as they waited for the carriage to convey them to the church.
Siena’s eyes widened. “Eliza!”
Her best friend shrugged, her blue-green eyes alighting with mischief as
her dimples played in her cheeks. “It’s the truth.”
She reached out and stole a lily from the bouquet sitting on the vanity
top in front of them and tucked it into a pin that was holding Siena’s blonde
hair. Eliza always described it as ‘the color of sun-kissed wheat’ and today
it was swept up in an intricately braided style that was far more elaborate
than she preferred.
But it didn’t matter, for who would ever see it but her family, her
groom, and his children?
“Children” who were older than she was.
“How your parents could do this to you, I will never understand,” Eliza
said, shaking her head with her hands on her hips now. Siena knew that
Eliza meant well, but it was easy to say such things when she had parents
who allowed her to do as she pleased.
“They are most concerned that I am well looked after,” Siena said
softly.
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