Wolfishly Yours

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Author: Lydia Dare
Tags: Fiction, General, Romance, Paranormal, Regency
was that Archer would have better luck with the viscountess than he’d had thus far. As soon as the coach reached the estate, Gray left his mother in her private parlor and went in search of his brother, in hope that reinforcements would aid their situation.
    He heard an exclamation of frustration escape from Archer’s study. Gray had grown accustomed to that particular sound ever since Lady Sophia had taken up residence in Hadley Hall. The lady must be in the study as well. Archer didn’t make that sound if she wasn’t within earshot.
    Despite his own frustration with their mother and one very specific American chit, Gray couldn’t help but smile. There was something vastly amusing about the way Lady Sophia always left Archer tongue-tied and blustering like a dolt. Gray cleared his throat before knocking on the door of his brother’s study.
    “Devil take it!” Archer growled from inside the room.
    Gray almost chuckled, but doing so would only serve to annoy Archer, and in this unfortunate situation, they needed to be united. He pushed the door open and stepped inside. “Quite an interesting way of inviting one’s brother into one’s study.”
    “I didn’t invite you.” Archer grimaced. “What do you want?”
    Gray leaned against the doorjamb and nodded to Lady Sophia, sitting across from his brother. “I gather your hands have been full while I was away.”
    She smiled as she rose from her seat. “My hands are always full with the two of you.”
    “All you have to do is leave,” Archer grumbled from his large leather chair. “And we’ll all be happier.”
    “Not until you’re a proper gentleman,” Lady Sophia remarked as she started for the door. “At this rate, I’ll be here until you die of old age.” She brushed past Gray, into the corridor. “Do continue your practice, my lord,” she tossed over her shoulder as she made her exit.
    Looking at the outraged expression of his brother, Gray did finally laugh. “I take it things didn’t go well with Lady Sophia?”
    “Do things ever go well with that woman?” Archer raked a hand through his dark hair. “If I didn’t know better, I’d think she stays up late every night thinking up new ways to vex me.”
    “And me,” Gray agreed, thinking about the tea-sipping from that afternoon. Utter rubbish.
    Archer scoffed. “You get off easy. She barely pays you any mind at all. Yet she takes special delight in tormenting me.”
    Well, Archer had won Lady Sophia’s family’s fortune, leaving her late father penniless, despondent, and perhaps even suicidal. But voicing those words aloud would be a surefire way of getting himself a broken nose. And though Gray would heal from the injury within moments, he wasn’t in the mood to spar with Archer, not when they needed to band together. Besides, Archer wasn’t aware Gray knew the particulars behind his new fortune, and more pressing matters needed to be dealt with at the moment.
    “You won’t believe the afternoon I’ve endured.”
    “Did you have a harridan insist you work on your penmanship for hours upon hours?” Archer sat back in his large leather seat with a huff, folding his arms across his chest. “I’d sooner have my valet shave my manly parts than I would answer all the correspondence she put before me.”
    Gray bit back the acrid taste that filled his mouth at the very thought of Archer’s valet getting anywhere near his manly parts, particularly with a sharp instrument, and then pushed himself from the doorjamb and stepped farther into the study, closing the door behind him. After all, it wouldn’t do for any household staff to overhear his next words. “Holmesfield’s granddaughter is in residence at the Court.”
    Finally a ghost of a smile lit Archer’s lips. “Oh? Was Mother matchmaking?”
    That thought hadn’t even occurred to Gray. “I don’t think so.” Though she had been awfully eager for him to accompany her that afternoon, hadn’t she?
    “Ever since Wes
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