Читать книгу The Return of Lord Conistone - Lucy Ashford - Страница 3
Оглавление‘Will you keep your trust in me, whatever you hear? Will you remember we are friends?’
Friends. Verena’s heart plummeted, but she managed to say lightly, ‘Good friends, indeed’.
Lucas nodded almost curtly, then took her hand and pressed his lips to it. She wanted to fling herself in his arms and cling to him and never let him go.
As he walked towards his waiting horse he turned to her one last time, as if he was about to say something else. But then he mounted up, gave a half-salute, and was gone.
She’d thought— everybody had thought—that he’d gone back to the battlefields of the Peninsula. But news came a few weeks later that he’d resigned from the army and was instead living the high life in London, with the Prince’s set. After that came whispers, too, of secret affaires with beautiful society women. And each piece of news about Lord Lucas Conistone stabbed Verena to the heart.
