At the Duke's Service
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Carole Mortimer
Carole Mortimer was born in England, the youngest of three children. She began writing in 1978, and has now written over one hundred and seventy books for Harlequin Mills and Boon®. Carole has six sons, Matthew, Joshua, Timothy, Michael, David and Peter. She says, ‘I’m happily married to Peter senior; we’re best friends as well as lovers, which is probably the best recipe for a successful relationship. We live in a lovely part of England.’
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At the Duke's Service - Carole Mortimer
Chapter One
St. Claire House, Mayfair, London, 1784
Would you kindly explain who you are and what you mean by coming here uninvited and taking me from my dinner guests?
Miss Angelina Hawkins rose slowly to her feet as a tall, arrogantly forceful man strode into the cavernous entrance hall where the butler had requested she wait whilst he informed his employer of her arrival.
Whilst she waited for this man. Alexander St. Claire, the ninth Duke of Stourbridge.
A man who, as an acquaintance of her late father, was not at all as Angelina had imagined him to be whenever she had thought of him these past three years. Pleasantly so. She had been prepared for a man of middle years, perhaps running to fat, with a face florid from an overindulgence of port.
But this man could be aged only thirty years at the most. And his face, though admittedly hard and aristocratic, held the same chiseled beauty of an archangel Angelina had once viewed in a painting at one of the art galleries her tutor, Miss Bristow, had insisted my young ladies
visit in an effort to broaden their education.
It was a decadently handsome face, one stamped with authority as well as arrogance, with a firm, unyielding jaw, and dominated by the darkest, most beautiful eyes Angelina had ever beheld.
Elegantly dressed, his shoulders were wide beneath the tailored black evening coat, his waist narrow, and his thighs and legs long and muscled in black silk breeches.
Yes, Alexander St. Claire was very handsome indeed. I am come, Your Grace,
she informed him huskily, almost overwhelmed by how instantly taken she was by his good looks.
Come?
he echoed sharply. Come where?
The scowl on his brow deepened with his increasing irritation.
She gazed up at him guilelessly. Here, Your Grace.
Without a doubt.
He gave an icy inclination of his head. What the devil do you mean by it?
Do not be cross with me, Alexander!
She moved to press herself against him, her head resting on the broadness of his chest as her arms moved lightly about the slender waist hidden beneath the fine material of his black evening coat. Miss Bristow did caution me to remain patient and wait until you came to collect me, but I could not wait any longer, Alexander, and decided to take matters into my own hands and come to you instead!
Alexander stood stiff and unyielding under this overfamiliar onslaught of feminine softness, as he felt a faint stirring of memory at the mention of a female called Bristow. He had the distinct feeling he had heard that name before. But for the moment, with firm breasts pressed against his chest, slender arms about his waist and the soft rose perfume wafting from the golden curls peeping from beneath her bonnet, he was having difficulty remembering exactly when and where…!
Not that it mattered at this particular moment. What mattered was releasing himself from this young woman’s far from unpleasant hands upon his person.
Alexander straightened to push her from him abruptly. Now see here…
Excuse me, Your Grace…?
He turned a scowling face in the direction of his butler. What is it, Thompson?
Thompson became uncomfortable under Alexander’s icy stare. Should I inform your guests that you have been…called away on business, Your Grace?
His Grace will rejoin his guests in but a few moments,
the young woman reassured Thompson before Alexander could speak.
He cast a look at this very forward and