Something Spectacular (Something Fabulous, #2)

by Alexis Hall

You’re each other’s first loves.” “Aye, well.” Her father shrugged contentedly. “What do you expect? No other bugger’d have us.” “That’s not true.” Peggy wasn’t sure if she spoke from loyalty or challenge. “You’re rich as sin—” “And common as muck,” added Mr. Delancey. “And Mam’s . . . well, all right,” Peggy conceded. “Mam’s peculiar.”

And swathed in a recently drenched piece of diaphanous nothing. I really need, thought Peggy urgently, to keep looking at this woman’s face.

“When I spoke of my searching, I did not make it clear enough that the miracle was not that I found someone like you. It is that the person I found was you.”