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it seemed to Daphne that she was the only person with whom he was ever truly relaxed enough to laugh and joke and make small talk.
There would be whispers. There were always whispers. And whispers, if left unchecked, could quickly grow into roars.
Daphne just hoped that by the time Violet was assaulted by rumors—most of them regrettably true—her daughter would already be safely betrothed to a duke.
People would forgive anything if one was connected to a duke.
He wouldn’t save himself, but he mi...
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“Do you remember my friend Macclesfield?”
He saw Daphne go into the garden with Simon. If he says anything this will ruin Daphne's reputation. This could be a scandal.
She nodded. Macclesfield was the young earl her mother had insisted upon introducing her to a fortnight ago. The very night she’d met Simon.
“Well, he saw you disappear into the gardens tonigh...
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“He won’t say anything. I’m sure of it. We’ve been friends for nearly a decade. But if he saw you, someone else might have as well.
“Lady Danbury saw?”
“She’s a dragon, and she can be rather cutting,
“He saw you disappear into the gardens with Hastings.”
“Oh, Colin, I’m in such a tangle.”
his eyes, normally so merry and mischievous, were as hard as emeralds.
“suppose you tell me what you and Hastings did tonight in Lady Trowbridge’s garden.”
a man is going to die tomorrow. I’m entitled to be a little upset.”
the fact that she’d been caught in a compromising position ought to be enough. She finished with, “And now there is going to be a duel, and Simon is going to die!”
“He won’t shoot Anthony. I’d bet my life on it.
“Anthony is so furious. I don’t think he’ll delope.”
I don’t even know where the duel is to be held. All I know is tha...
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I can’t sit here and stare at the ceiling while Simon dies.”
“I love him.”
“Even after he rejec...
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I still love him. He needs me.”
don’t you think he would have agreed to marry you when Anthony demanded it?”
but it was almost as if a part of him wanted to marry me.”
But she knew in her heart that she was right. “I don’t want him to die,”
He’d agreed with her that Anthony had most probably asked Benedict to act as his second. It was Colin’s job to get them to tell him where the duel was to take place.
“If Simon gets there before Anthony, maybe I can convince him to marry me before anyone even pulls out a gun.”
Anthony had suggested, and he had agreed, that they carry out their business far from Mayfair. It was dawn, of course,
dueling was illegal.
He had disgraced a gently bred lady whom he could not marry, and now he must suffer the consequences. It was nothing Simon had not known before he’d kissed her.
Almost as grim as Simon’s heart.
“You could marry her. Maybe you don’t love her, but I know you like her well enough. Why won’t you marry her?”
all the reasons he’d sworn never to take a wife and perpetuate his line.
Not the Bridgertons, who only knew that family was good and kind and true. They didn’t know anything about cruel words and shattered dreams. They didn’t...
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Anthony Bridgerton, the man who had been his friend since his earliest days at Eton, and said, “Just know it isn’t Daphne. Your sister is the finest woman I’ve ever had the privilege to know.”
“What the hell do you think you’re doing?” he demanded. “Saving your miserable life!”
“I’m going to kill him!” “Would that be before or after Anthony shoots you through the heart?”
“And I was supposed to let her stay at home and cry her eyes out?” “Yes!”
She punched Simon. In his good eye.
Daphne had to delay this duel somehow. So that Anthony doesn't kill Simon.
“Might I have one, single, tiny, ever-so-brief moment with his grace?”
“I’ve already told you I cannot marry you.” “You have to.”
“I mean that we were seen.” “By whom?” “Macclesfield.”
Simon and Daphne were seen in the garden together alone. They have to get married. This will ruin her, and this would save Simon from death.
“He won’t talk.” “But there were others!”
“If you don’t marry me,” she said in a low voice, “I will be ruined.”
If Simon doesn't marry Daphne her reputation will be ruined. She will never find a husband now. Being with Simon before marriage will taint her.
Her entire future—and his life!—was riding on this moment.
“No one will have me. I shall be packed away to some godforsaken corner of the country—”
“But I will never marry. You ...
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“I will be forever branded as used goods. I’ll never have a husband, ...
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