Her Ruthless Duke by Scarlett Scott EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
- Author: Scarlett Scott
- Language: English
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- Status: Available For Free Download
- Genre: Victorian Historical Romance
- Price: Free
- File Size: 2 MB
- Publish Date: March 16, 2023
Trevor William Hunt, sixth Duke of Ridgely, Marquess of Northrop,
Baron Grantworth, glared at the menace who had invaded his home,
doing his utmost not to take note of the tempting ankles peeping from
beneath the hems of her gown and petticoats. A damned difficult task indeed
when the menace in question loomed above him from the top rung of the
ladder in his library. There was nowhere to look but up her skirts.
In his time as a spy working for the Guild, reporting directly to Whitehall,
he’d faced fearsome enemies and would-be assassins. He’d been shot at,
stabbed, and nearly trampled by a carriage. But all that rather paled in
comparison to the full force of Lady Virtue Walcot, daughter of his late
friend the Marquess of Pemberton, Trevor’s unexpected and unwanted ward,
and minion of Beelzebub sent fresh from Hades to destroy him.
“Come down before you break your neck, infant,” he ordered her.
He hadn’t a conscience, but he had no intention of beginning his day by
witnessing the chit tumbling to her doom. He had yet to take his breakfast,
after all.
“I am not an infant,” she announced, defiance making her tone sharp as a
whip from her lofty perch.
The minx hadn’t even bothered to cast a glance in his direction for her
response.
No, indeed. Instead, she continued thumbing through the dusty tomes
lining the shelves overhead, relics from the fifth Duke of Ridgely. Likely, the
duke had wanted to impress his mistress of the moment. Trevor strongly
doubted his sire had ever read a word on their pages. Hmm. When he had an
opportunity, he’d do away with the lot of them. He’d quite forgotten they
were there.
“Child, then,” he allowed, crossing his arms over his chest and keeping
his gaze studiously trained on the shelves instead of the tempting curve of her
rump overhead. “For a woman fully grown would never go climbing about in
her guardian’s library, putting her welfare in peril.”
“She would if she were looking for something to occupy her mind, aside
from the tedium her guardian has arranged for her.”
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