Yes, she's a lady ~ Excerpt from 'A Code of Wonder'
“Stop.” The man stood at the top of the stairs. He at least had the decency to put his breeches on though sans a shirt. “This is ridiculous. Come back. We’ll talk.” He tried to sound reasonable, but Eliza saw the way his hands were fisted at his side, his strained neck, and clenched jaw.
“Are you insane? So you can ravish me?” Eliza ran down the stairs.
“I wasn’t going to ravish you. My God, this melodrama. I give you my word as a gentleman, I’ve never harmed a woman. And never taken a woman against her will. Bloody hell, I saved you.”
“A gentleman would never talk to a lady in such a manner.”
“You’re a lady?”
Eliza gasped. He had the nerve to call her out—a “gentleman” who was willing to ravish an innocent woman. After all her mother’s attempt to shape her daughters to be ladies and redeem the family name after the scandal that caused them to be shunned from society, she was now the one to bring complete ruin to her family.
That was the worst thing he could have said.
A Code of Wonder is part of the Regency holiday anthology, Snowed in with a Rogue.
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