Stolen By the Cruel Duke (DANGEROUS DUKES #1) by Arabella Wells EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Arabella Wells
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“We’re ruined! We’re all ruined!”
Miss Iris Crampton looked up to see her sister, Rosalie, staring at the
newspaper she was reading, a look of shock, horror, and confusion on her
face.
“Rose?” she asked cautiously, her finger hovering over the daisies she was
stitching into a pillowcase. “Is everything all right?”
While the youngest Crampton daughter was prone to dramatics, Iris
couldn’t help but feel a twinge of unease at her sister’s calamitous
announcement.
Rosalie turned her large green eyes—so much like Iris’s, so much like their
mother’s—to her sister and opened her mouth, but no words came out. This
was also unlike her. At seventeen, Rosalie Crampton always had something
to say.
From across the drawing room, their middle sister, Violet, looked up from
her book. “Are you reading the gossip sheets again, Rose? You really ought
not to believe a word they say. Life for young ladies is not nearly as
exciting as they make it out to be.”
Rosalie found her voice. “But—this one is about Iris!”
A stunned silence greeted this pronouncement.
Iris’s stomach turned over, and heat rushed to her cheeks and neck. “W-why
would they write about me?” she stammered. “I’m just a boring spinster.”
Violet, however, had closed her book. She stood up and crossed to Rosalie,
snatching the paper from her hands. Her eyes widened as she began to read,
and then she clapped a hand over her mouth.
“It can’t be,” she whispered through her fingers.
“The gossip sheets wouldn’t lie about something this ruinous,” Rosalie said
at once. She turned to look at Iris, who felt as if she’d been punched in the
stomach.
“Now you’re both scaring me,” Iris said. Standing, she held out her hand,
which had begun to shake. “Give me the paper.”
Violet hesitated for a moment, and Iris gave her her most formidable look.
Iris was the eldest, after all, and now that their mother was gone, it was her
responsibility to look out for her sisters and mitigate any harm that might
come to the family. Whatever the paper said, it was better she met it headon.
Violet handed her the paper, and Iris smoothed it out to read it.
She wasn’t sure what she had been expecting. The headline, however, was
far worse than anything she could have imagined.
Spirited Spinster Miss I. C. sneaks away from the ball for rendezvous with
Dangerous Duke E.
Iris began to read, her heart in her throat.
Scandal ensued by the cover of night last Saturday at the Holloway Ball,
when the eldest daughter of a divisive viscount was seen embracing the
most dangerous Duke in the realm. Miss I. C. was the only young lady to
faint at the ball, leading some to speculate whether this fit was, in fact,
genuine or a ruse designed to allow her to meet in secret with her
paramour.
After ‘swooning,’ Miss I. C. was seen leaving the ball
unchaperoned and making her way to the rose garden. There, she was
joined by her tall, blue-eyed Duke, in what this writer can only describe as
a licentious tryst unfit for the eyes of its delicate readers
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