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I found the perfect spot, Hyacinth translated, jotting the words down on paper He will never… She frowned She didn’t know the rest of the sentence, so she put some dashes down on her paper to indicate an untranslated phrase and h, she read And so he won’t suspect…

“Oh, ht She flipped the page of the diary, reading it as quickly as she could, her atteotten

“Isabella,” she said with admiration “You sly fox”

An hour or so later, an instant before Gareth knocks on Hyacinth’s door

Gareth sucked in a deep breath, suers around the heavy brass knocker that sat on the front door of Nuant little house Hyacinth’s mother had purchased after her eldest son had erton House

Then he tried not to feel co he needed the courage in the first place And it wasn’t really courage he needed For God’s sake, he wasn’t afraid It ell, no, it wasn’t quite dread It was—

He groaned In every life, there wereto put off And if it meant he was less of awith Hyacinth Bridgerton…well, he was perfectly willing to call himself a juvenile fool

Frankly, he didn’t know anyone who’d want to deal with Hyacinth Bridgerton at a moment like this

He rolled his eyes, thoroughly impatient with himself This shouldn’t be difficult He shouldn’t feel strained Hell, it wasn’t as if he had never kissed a female before and had to face her the next day

Except…

Except he’d never kissed a female like Hyacinth, one who A) hadn’t been kissed before and B) had every reason to expect that a kissmore

Not to mention C) was Hyacinth

Because one really couldn’t discount thehe had learned in this past week, it was that Hyacinth was quite unlike any other woman he’d ever known

At any rate, he’d sat at hoe that would surely arrive, escorted by a liveried footrandmother’s diary Hyacinth couldn’t possibly wish to translate it now, not after he had insulted her so grievously the night before

Not, he thought, only a little bit defensively, that he’done way or another He certainly hadn’t ht hadn’t even occurred to hiht it wouldn’t have occurred to him except that he had been so off-balance, and then she’d soht in the hallway, alic