Seduction of an English Beauty

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Miranda Jarrett. Seduction of an English Beauty

SEDUCTION OF AN ENGLISH BEAUTY

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“It was bella fortuna that sent you to me. Bella fortuna—luck, fate. Or is your London too dry and serious for such notions?”

“I don’t believe in fate,” Diana said. “Fate means you’ve abandoned reason and choice.”

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“Not like that, no,” she said. She took a single step away from him, taking care to make her white muslin skirts drift gracefully around her legs. “Rather I believe that we control our own lives and destinies, with the free will that God gave us. Otherwise we’d be no better than rudderless skiffs, tossed about on a river’s current. That’s what I believe. As, I suspect, do you.”

He sighed, and at last let his hand drop from his chest. “You suspect me already, my lady?”

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