He was beginning to have his doubts. “I might be.”
“Bah,” Ridgeway scoffed. “That’s not the man my brother wrote to me about during the war. The cruel, ruthless, bloodthirsty Captain Blunt who had all of his men shivering in their boots. Surely you remember him?”
“Only too well,” Jasper said grimly.
“Do you? Because it sometimes seems to me that you’re not that man at all.”
The accusation turned Jasper’s blood to ice. His gaze jerked to Ridgeway’s face. There seemed to be no ulterior meaning in his words. No hint of a threat. “I may well have been ruthless,” he replied, “but never with women. And never outside times of war.”
“My dear fellow, this is a war,” Ridgeway said. “It’s the London season.”
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USA Today bestselling author Mimi Matthews writes both historical nonfiction and award-winning proper Victorian romances. Her novels have received starred reviews in Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, and Kirkus Reviews, and her articles have been featured on the Victorian Web, in the Journal of Victorian Culture, and in syndication at BUST magazine. In her other life, Mimi is an attorney. She resides in California with her family, which includes a retired Andalusian dressage horse, a sheltie, and two Siamese cats.
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