A Most Faithful Companion (Supposed Scandal #4)

A Most Faithful Companion (Supposed Scandal #4)

Author: Kasey Stockton Listening Length: 7h 39m
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She cannot afford scandal. He cannot forget her. Nine years ago, Emma Darling chose duty—and lost everything for it. With her parents gone, her standing in ruins, and her dreams packed away, she has survived by becoming an unimposing companion to the kind, if meddlesome, Mrs. Buckley. It is not the life she imagined, ...

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CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE

Mr. Lofton sat directly beside Emma in church, his son Lewis taking the final seat on his other side and boxing her in. She tried to scoot closer to Mrs. Buckley, but there was little room on that end due to Owen’s parents taking up the space on her other side. Emma was well and truly sandwiched.

Ever since Mr. Lofton had left the dressing table at Primrose End, despite Emma’s clear refusal to accept it, she had noticed a subtle but marked attention from him.

It begged the question: was Mr. Lofton making his attention known now, or had it always been there, and Emma had only been blind to it before?