Woo'dinHaste - (EPUB全文下载)
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WOO’D IN HASTE
A Taming Story
SABRINA DARBY
DEDICATION
For sisters everywhere
CONTENTS
Dedication
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
An Excerpt from Wed at Leisure
Chapter One
Chapter Two
About the Author
Also by Sabrina Darby
An Excerpt from Falling for Owen by Jennifer Ryan
An Excerpt from Good Girls Don’t Date Rock Stars by Codi Gary
Copyright
About the Publisher
CHAPTER ONE
A man’s life can change in an instant. Lucian Dorlingsley, Viscount Asquith, heir to the Earl of Finleigh, had heard this aphorism many times, but until that particular August morning, he had never experienced such a profound moment. Not throughout his sheltered childhood at his familial estate. Or during the more arduous years at Harrow and Cambridge. Not even during the long continental tour from which he had just returned.
Yet here, in the sleepy town of Watersham, where he was stopping briefly with the Colburns on his way home, his life had been rocked down to his very essence.
“I’m in love, Reggie!” He paced the length of the veranda where they were enjoying an al fresco luncheon. The sky beyond was a cerulean blue and the weather, for once, that rare balance of very English sunshine (and he had now seen enough of the world to know that sunshine had a different quality in different places) tempered by a delicate breeze. In other words, the perfect day to fall in love.
His friend, the younger brother of the Duke of Orland, looked at him doubtfully, a cautious smirk on his lips.
“Who is she, then? A Parisian dancer from the opera? An Italian nymph? What paragon did you meet on your travels that has you so bound up in a paroxysm of amorous emotion?”
Reggie saw the world as one large jest, and on most occasions that was one of his charms. In fact, his boisterous manner was what made him so easy to be around. Often Luc could simply follow him about and be amused without having to put himself forward in any way. It was also, at this moment, the one thing Luc did not need. Not about a matter so serious.
“No, nothing so cliché as all that. I saw her here in the village this morning. I stopped by the apothecary and there she was.”
“And did you pledge your undying love to her?”
Luc shook his head, ignoring Reggie’s exaggerations and persistent humor for a confessional honesty. An honesty that he had with few others, including his sisters. But ............
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