Exit, Pursued by a Baron (The Beaumonts, #1)

by Aydra Richards

“I won’t be your mistress, however,” she said. “Rather, I will permit you to be my lover.” ​“You will, will you?” ​“So long as you please me.”

“Darling, if you think that, you are truly ignorant of men. Idiots, all, I assure you—though sometimes we are blessed with bouts of competence, and the very occasional profundity.”

“Lydia!” ​God save her from the unearned arrogance of men.

It had simply never occurred to him that the effort that went into putting on that production, which had only ever cost him a few hours of an evening, had in fact represented weeks of work for someone else.

“How blithely men do tender their opinions,” Lydia said. “Especially those unasked for.”

“He was always going to take you home,” Giles said. “I knew it, even if you didn’t. You were always meant to be his baroness.”