Something must be truly exciting for her to be acting so rashly. Anticipation overtook him as he watched his tiny wife begin to jump up and down.
She raised both hands high above her head, frantically aiming for someone's attention. A tad late he had spent a ridiculous amount of time picking out her favorite flowers and daydreaming on the way to their meeting place.Īs he crossed the final street to Gunther's, he watched as Lucy waved wildly in the other direction. Hunter pulled out his pocket-watch and examined the numbers. Never a conventional bride, she didn't care a whit about propriety and often kissed him in public, much to the ton's dismay. He crossed the street and smiled, thinking of the way she would throw her head back in laughter and leap into his arms. Knowing he lacked the maturity of romance, given his young age of one-and-twenty, he had poured countless hours into this meeting, into her surprise. Hunter would be gone for weeks at a time, spending many sleepless nights tossing and turning, aching for Lucy, the Royal Duchess of Haverstone. And after being married for a year, he could no longer manage being apart from her. Yet Hunter could not bring himself to deny her anything. When she doesn't leap at the chance to marry him, he sets about to not only prove that he's worthy of her favor, but also worthy of her heart.She loved flowers - the pink frilly ones that made a man roll his eyes in disgust. Funny thing that, for the very minute she says no, he finds his heart very much wants to say yes. That is, until he is compromised and stuck in an engagement to a girl who claims she'd rather jump from a moving carriage than marry him. He refuses to allow himself to fall prey to his aunt's ministrations. It matters not that the minute he sets eyes on her at the Christmas ball, his blood boils with lust. With his childhood nemesis.Ī young woman who, though she claims it was an accident, has nearly killed him thrice through her lack of grace and manners. So she very lovingly and selflessly sets him up. But his aunt, bless her heart, thinks she's dying, and believes her nephew's behavior is the only thing standing in the way between her entrance to heaven or hell. After all, a man cannot keep the reputation of being The Devil Duke when he is leg-shackled to some simpering spinster. But things take a turn for the worse when his menacing aunt throws a hitch in his plans to remain the most sinful and talked-about man in the ton. Benedict Devlyn, Duke of Banbury, has one thing on his mind and it isn't marriage.
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