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"Let’s take a look at that foot," Andrew said, his voice still an obnoxiously bright note in the tableau He peeled off her stocking, let out a lohistle, and said with some admiration, "Ech, Billie, what did you do to yourself? That looks brutal"

"Shut up," George said

Andrew just shrugged "It doesn’t look broken --"

"It’s not," Billie cut in

"Still, you’ll be off it for a week, at least"

"Perhaps not quite so long," George said, even though he rather thought Andreas correct in his assess her condition They weren’t saying anything Billie didn’t already know "Shall we go?" he said

Billie closed her eyes and nodded "We should put the ladder away," she htened his arms around her and headed east toward Aubrey Hall, where Billie lived with her parents and three younger siblings "We’ll get it tomorrow"

She nodded "Thank you"

"For what?"

"Everything"

"That covers quite a lot," he said in a dry voice "Are you sure you wish to be in such debt?"

She looked up at hientleht, he supposed, although he’d never treated Billie Bridgerton like any other female of his acquaintance Hell, no one did

"Will you still be able to coe

Billie turned to hiotten," he said, laying one dra the prodigal son --"

"You’re not the prodigal son," George said Good God