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Improper
Chapter One
London, February, 1815
Tobias Powell, fifth Earl of Overton, smiled faintly at the brush of his mistress’s fingertips along his shoulder.He didn’t open his eyes and instead pressed himself into the bedclothes, as if he could hug the cozy softness of the bed.He was particularly tired today, but then it had been a viciously late night.
“What time is your ward arriving?”Barbara, his soon-to-be-former mistress asked from behind him.
Bloody hell, his ward.His eyes shot open as he pushed himself to a sitting position, the bedclothes falling away from his nude body.“What time is it?”
“Three.”
“In the afternoon?”Of course in the afternoon.They hadn’t even come back to Barbara’s lodgings until the sun was rising over London.
