Nevertheless, with her green eyes glinting against her magnolia skin, she looked exceedingly beautiful, but also as dangerous as a cobra.
Now, as if she was determined to get to the point, she said to the Duke,
“What brings Your Grace here so early in the morning?”
“Wynchester has come with good news, Olive,” Lord Brandon interrupted before the Duke could reply. “I know that you will be as surprised as I am, but he tells me he and Janeta wish to be married and he has asked my permission, which, of course, I have given him, to announce their engagement.”
The Duke watched Olive’s reaction to this announcement with some anxiety.
He saw her body grow tense and, as she drew in her breath, he thought for one terrifying moment that she was going to scream out the truth that he was her lover.
