Wedded to the Ruthless Duke by Sally Vixen EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Sally Vixen
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Grace burst into the ballroom.
“Oh, dear.” Althea’s disapproving tone was already sounding behind her. It
wasn’t helped by the short sigh of her cousin, Tabitha.
Grace chose not to look back at her family. Instead, she took off as best as
she could between the crowds of the ballroom. She ducked down to avoid
being caught in the eye by feathers thrust into ladies’ updos. They were so
eager to join the dancers that they had begun to jig by themselves.
The sounds of cacophonous laughter and violin music filled the air, making
it even harder to orientate herself in this mess of bodies and overly fine
gowns, but Grace knew where to go. It was always the same since Eleanor
had married and was now with child.
Eleanor could be found by the table that the food was on.
Grace appeared by one such table decked with punch bowls and glass plates
topped with cakes and ice cream. Eleanor stood beside the table, a glass
bowl in her hand and a spoon of cream on the way to her lips.
“Grace!” Eleanor smiled. She dropped the spoon back in the bowl and
turned to Grace, in danger of knocking her over with the roundness of her
belly. “Oops, sorry,” Eleanor caught her wrists and steadied her. “I do not
yet think I am used to my new size.”
“I do not need any more help falling over, Eleanor. You know that.” Grace’s
jest made them laugh together as they held hands. “I am delighted to see
you doing so well though and to see you so happy.”
Eleanor beamed at her and dug into her bowl of cream once again as she
pushed her spectacles up her nose.
It was true that Eleanor had never been so settled or as delighted with life as
she had been since she married Dorian, the Duke of Dayton.
“Thank you. I wish I could see you smile more.” Eleanor’s own smile
faltered. “I trust that you have come running across the ballroom to escape
your mother.”
“I swear, she has grown worse.” Grace sighed, blowing one lock of her
honey hair which had escaped her updo out of her eyes. “Ever since my
cousin has come to stay with us for the Season, it has made my mother
realize all the more every way in which I am deficient.”
“Deficient!?” Clearly outraged at the choice of word, Eleanor actually lost
interest in the desert she had been demolishing. She put down the glass
bowl and turned to face Grace fully. “Grace, you are not deficient.”
“Try telling that to my mother. Ahem.” Grace cleared her throat and lifted
her chin higher, putting on a new tone of voice and doing the best
impression of her mother that she could possibly master.
“I am telling you,
Grace, that all my lessons over the years must have gone in one of those
ears of yours and out the other without stopping in the middle.”
“Pff, is that what she says? She is getting worse,” Eleanor agreed with a taut
nod. “Even though Philip and I have always argued, for we certainly don’t
see eye to eye on all matters, we always defended one another to our
parents. Does your cousin not jump to your defense?”
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