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Bloody hell

Chapter 14

"Pardon e has arrived for you" Belle looked up as a servant entered the roo the previous night with John-for about the fiftieth time She took the letter, carefully opened it, and read the contents

Belle,

I apologize for giving you such short notice, but I will be unable to acco

Sincerely,

John Blackwood

Belle looked down at the note for a , she just decided that some people alrote forned the note "sincerely" rather than "love" And it didn't really matter that he had felt the need to include his surnaiven na herself not to be so fanciful

She shrugged Maybe Dunford would be interested in escorting her and Persephone

Dunford did want to go to the theater, and he had a fine tihts frequently drifted off toward the ht before She wondered what had kept hi, but supposed that he'd explain everything to her the next day

Except he didn't come by the next day Or the one after that

Belle was more than puzzled She was damned irritated She'd been warned about men who used women for their own pleasure and then discarded the herself to place John in that category First of all, she refused to believe that she could have fallen in love with a man as so fundamentally dishonest, and second of all, it had been she who ht, not hilimpse of him, Belle finally decided to take matters into her own hands and sent hi hirumbled in irritation He knew very well that she could not call on hi with his brother, and both were bachelors It was entirely unsuitable for an unmarried lady to call on such a household Especially here in London Her mother would have her head if she found out about it, which she very wellthat she was due back any day now