The Heiress’s Daughter (THE BRIDES OF BELLAIRE GARDENS #3) by Anne Gracie EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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London 1818
Clarissa Studley sat in the summerhouse, gazing out through windows
blurry with rain. It had been raining all night and the garden was
soaked, the air filled with the fragrance of rich earth and drenched flowers.
If only she could make a perfume as magical as that…
She sighed. The paper in front of her was still blank. She’d come out to
the summerhouse in the garden, intending to pen her regular weekly letter
to her old nanny, who lived retired in the country, but her mind simply
wouldn’t settle to it.
It was the morning after her sister’s wedding to Leo, Lord Salcott, and
Clarissa had passed a sleepless night.
She and her sister would no longer be together—not in the same way—
ever again. Of course, they’d see each other frequently: when she returned
from her honeymoon, Izzy would live in Leo’s house, which was just across
the garden.
But at the end of the season, Izzy and Leo would go to live on Leo’s
country estate in Hampshire, and then who knew how often Clarissa would
see her sister? Oh, she was sure they would invite her to come with them,
but Clarissa had no intention of playing gooseberry in her beloved sister’s
marriage.
No, face facts. From now on she was essentially on her own. Of course
there was old Lady Scattergood, Leo’s aunt, with whom she currently lived,
and Mrs. Price-Jones, the chaperone Leo had hired for her, and Betty, her
maidservant, whom she’d known from childhood. But fond as she was of
them, they weren’t the same as a sister.
So, her old life was over and a new way of going forward had to be
embraced.
Embraced? Accepted, anyway.
No, she told herself firmly, embraced was the word. If she had learned
one thing in her life it was that if you wanted something to happen, there
was no point in sitting around wishing and hoping and dreaming. Because
nobody would do it for you. You had to make things happen yourself.
She had made Papa accept, however reluctantly and resentfully, that
Izzy was her sister and would live with her. And it had changed her life.
And when they’d come to London after Papa’s death, she and Izzy had
made Leo, her guardian, accept Izzy’s entry into society along with
Clarissa, despite Izzy’s illegitimacy and his vigorous opposition. And look
how well that had turned out—Leo had fallen in love with Izzy and had
married her. So now Clarissa needed to work out what she wanted and try to
make it happen.
But what did she want? She twirled her pen meditatively and gazed out
of the rain-spattered window and the saturated garden.
First and foremost she wanted a family—children. Not just one child,
either. She didn’t want any child of hers to be as lonely as she’d been before
she’d found Izzy. That had been providential, but purely accidental.
And of course, to have children she needed a husband. Up to now, she’d
been waiting for a desirable husband to present himself—but so far no
likely candidates had. The fortune hunters kept coming. So she needed to
take a more active role.
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