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𝐒𝐈𝐌𝐎𝐍 𝐁𝐀𝐒𝐒𝐄𝐓, the irresistible Duke of Hastings, has hatched a plan to keep himself free from the town's marriage-minded society mothers. After all, it isn′t as if the bro...
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𝐒𝐈𝐌𝐎𝐍 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐋𝐀𝐃𝐘 𝐃𝐀𝐍𝐁𝐔𝐑𝐘 sat across each other in his carriage on their way to her house. The duke avoided the daggers sent in his direction, looking at the window, while Agatha stared at him pointedly with a narrow, burning gaze.
Unexpectedly, she hit him on the knee hard.
"Ow!" Simon exclaimed. "What was that for?"
"I demand to know. Is all this time you are spending with Miss Bridgerton leading anywhere?" She questioned him.
"Could it not merely be time well spent?" He asked.
"Time well spent?" Lady Danbury scoffed. "There's no such thing when it comes to this. A prolonged courtship is one thing, but now it is very clear to anyone with a vision that Aurora Bridgerton has caught the attention of Prince Friedrich."
"I saw them at the exhibition today. He looked at her with a wanting gaze..." She informed him to which he couldn't help but roll his eyes.
"Listen, my boy, if you have designs upon the girl and wish to marry her, then Friedrich can disappear, for all I care, and become a treat for mamas and daughters of the ton... Yet if you are merely dallying with her, and she loses her chance of such an extraordinary match simply because she's so smitten with you... well, then, she would be wasted, and I will never forgive your carelessness." Lady Danbury told him an all seriousness.
"Miss Bridgerton is not a fool, I'm sure she knows what match is best for her." He replied.
Besides, the way she was always referring to him as a friend spoke for its own.
"Then you are just being cruel. You are confusing her feelings, and we both know I taught you better than that." She scolded.
Simon didn't give her an answer. Instead, he stared out the window once again, leaving a heavy sigh. He didn't want to believe what she said to him. Aurora was smart, and she knew his true intentions of not ever marrying. She wants the prince.
