Duke with a Duchess (Wicked Dukes Society #5)

As she always did whenever he stayed awake in the library in need of advice or company, Verity appeared, blending in with the shadows of the room in her black silk.

The mantel clock had just struck eleven.

She was earlier this evening than she had been on most nights.

But then, so was Everett. He had spent the last few weeks following the ball in a state of half wakefulness, caught between the tremendous desire he couldn’t seem to shake for his wife and the furious fear that she was still desperately in love with her beau from Eastlake Hall.