Аннотация
Amanda Quick
Mistress
PROLOGUE
"YOUR LATEST MISTRESS IS CREATING A SENSATION BACK IN London, Masters. Society finds her vastly entertaining." Charles Trescott, seated before the fireplace, downed a swallow of brandy and eyed his host with a sly expression. "As you've taken a notion to rusticate here in the country at the height of the Season for some odd reason, I thought you'd better know what's going on back in Town."
"Very thoughtful of you to go out of your way to give me the latest gossip."
"Least I could do, especially since it's your name that is on everyone's lips at the moment. I know how that sort of thing annoys you." Trescott, bored and dissolute at thirty, paused with a barely concealed air of anticipation.
"You are mistaken, Trescott. I do not give a bloody damn what the ton chooses to gossip about over tea."
Trescott was disappointed but undaunted. In the manner of a willful child intent on provoking a lion in a cage, h...
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