
And you’re not a monster, despite the reputation you try to maintain. “Are you listening, my lord? I’m not babbling to fill the time, you know.”Ĭameron couldn’t look away from Ainsley, her head bent to the count’s as they discussed their next play. I’m happy that Isabella plucks Ainsley out once in a while, even if only for a week.” Cameron felt Mrs. Patrick and his wife are a bit overprotective, have always been, but then Patrick and Rona raised Ainsley and her three other brothers when their parents died.

Playing the piano if they’re feeling truly frivolous. She stays with her brother during her meager days off-kind people, as I said, but stuffy. By the time Ainsley is allowed a holiday, she’s too exhausted for much of a social life. “But the poor girl is never seen out and about during the Season,” Mrs. Ainsley couldn’t afford to lose her position with the queen.


All of which explained Ainsley’s obsessive determination to retrieve the disgraceful letter from the clutches of the evil Lord Cameron before he showed it to anyone.
