A Debutante's Guide to Rebellion (10 page)

And it was perfect.

Ezekiel's hand crept to hers. Lord Averdale kindly looked away. They were almost married, after all, Eddie thought.

“Lord Averdale,” Eddie said. “Did my mother happen to mention anything about her diamonds?”

“Her diamonds? No, not at all,” Lord Averdale said. “Why?”

“No reason,” Eddie replied swiftly. Ezekiel's fingers tightened convulsively around hers. She looked at him, and bit her lip to hide a smile. “Those men are going to be
extremely
surprised,” she said.

“So is your mother,” Ezekiel said.

Eddie began to laugh. With Ezekiel's hand in hers and the rattle and sway of the carriage around her, she felt as if she could keep on laughing all the way to Scotland.

Kathleen Kimmel 
is the author of the Birch Hall Romance series, which began with 
A Lady's Guide to Ruin
. She works in the video game industry, writing for games on such varied topics as Jane Austen, supernatural detectives, romance visual novels, rubber ducks, and true love.

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