Chapter Six‘How could she? How could she lie to me?’ Prunella said over and over again to herself as they drove from the restaurant back towards the hotel.
Nanette and Pascoe had not been aware that she and the Earl were in the same restaurant and had seen them and, although in her first fury at having been deceived, Prunella had wanted to go and confront them, but the Earl had prevented her.
She had half-risen to her feet when she felt his hand on her wrist.
“No,” he insisted firmly. “You cannot make a scene here.”
“I only want her to know that I have seen her and am aware of her lies and deception,” Prunella replied.
“And what good will that do?”
Because the Earl’s hand held her prisoner and she also felt him drawing her back into her seat, she sat down again.
“I trusted her when
