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Men, she thought with disgust, were interested only in those women who terrified them.
The Duke of Hastings. Daphne decided then and there that she’d be a fool if she didn’t fall in love with him.
As she spoke, she turned her face toward his, and in that instant, with the wind catching her hair and painting her cheeks pink, she looked so enchantingly lovely that Simon nearly forgot to breathe. Her lush mouth was caught somewhere between a laugh and a smile, and the sun glinted almost red on her hair. Here on the water, away from stuffy ballrooms, with the fresh air swirling about them, she looked natural and beautiful and just being in her presence made Simon want to grin like an idiot.
“Any man, you’ll soon learn, has an insurmountable need to blame someone else when he is made to look a fool.”
Many a woman has been ruined by a single kiss.
And in that moment, as he slowly closed the distance between them, he became her entire world.
To say that men can be bullheaded would be insulting to the bull. Lady Whistledown’s Society Papers, 2 June 1813
He loved her. He worshipped her. He’d walk across fire for her. He— —still had the audience of her three brothers.
It’s a boy for the Duke and Duchess of Hastings! After three girls, society’s most besotted couple has finally produced an heir.
