Bound By her Earl (SEDUCTIVE MYSTERIES #2) by Scarlett Osborne EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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Three Years Later
“I never should have found them a governess,” Emily muttered to
herself as she searched for her sisters. “Let alone one that
encouraged independent thinking. I should have locked them in the
cellar and let them out when they were five-and-twenty. Nay, thirty.”
Emily herself might only have been two-and-twenty, but she felt confident
that the twins would require more time to become respectable members of
Society who did not seek to sow chaos at every turn. The events of this
evening were, she felt, ample evidence of that notion.
Tonight was, after all, only the twins’ second night out in Society; they’d
debuted only days earlier. In advance of that debut, Emily had reminded
them again and again (and again and again and again) to comport
themselves in a manner that would not bring scandal down upon their house
and name.
Amanda and Rose had managed the thing perfectly. They’d been pleasant
and popular, had danced with a variety of gentlemen, and had avoided
insulting anyone or speaking too outlandishly on any of their radical
viewpoints. And Emily, who was apparently the worst kind of idiot, had
patted herself on the back. A job well done, she’d considered it. Clearly the
girls knew how to behave.
So, tonight, she’d only impressed the importance of propriety upon them
once.
It had not been enough, apparently.
They’d given her the slip within ten minutes, their manner too coordinated
to have been circumstance. They’d been retrieving their cups of punch
when Amanda had made a distressed sound over her hem. She’d handed
Emily her glass and bent to fuss with her skirts. Just then, Rose had spotted
a friend. She’d needed to check her coiffure. When Emily had turned back
to Amanda, she was gone. When Emily turned to ask Rose where Amanda
had hied off to, Rose was also gone.
And Emily had been left juggling three cups of punch.
“Too clever,” she groused now as she searched the crowd for them. If her
sisters had been as tall as Emily was, this would have been easy. Alas,
Emily topped them both by several inches. The girls blended easily into the
crowd.
“Too clever,” she said again. “And can they use those powers for good? No.
I should see about marrying Amanda off to some kind of intelligence
officer. If we’re lucky, that will improve the nation’s security. If not, well, at
least he’ll have experience dealing with slippery characters.”
Emily recognized that she was working herself into quite the state. And
most of this had to do with irritation with her sisters. Could they never just
listen to her? She was constantly trying her hardest—had been doing so
since she was a child herself, really—to provide a good model for them and
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