The Lady's Forbidden LoveLangley Sisters Series
Wendy Vella
Contents
The Lady’s Forbidden Love
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Sensing Danger
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The Lady’s Forbidden Love
By Wendy Vella
A lady in disguise
Betrayal is the one sin businessman Daniel Dillinger will not tolerate, so when sweet governess Abigail Wright reveals herself to be Lady Abigail Deville, sister of an earl, he vows to never cross her path again. However, he soon learns what led to Abby’s deception, and when he saves her from a knife-wielding villain, Daniel realizes he can no longer deny what is in his heart. Can he keep her safe? Losing her is not something he can contemplate.
One night of forbidden temptation
Living with four protective brothers and society’s restrictions forced Abby to sneak out of the house one night. Just one night of freedom would be enough, she’d believed, and that night had given her Daniel. When her lie is revealed, as eventually they always are, he keeps her secret, but she sees the anger smoldering in his eyes. When he is forced to protect her, Abby vows to make him look at her like he did that night once more, but to do that she must live long enough to ensnare his heart.
THE LANGLEY SISTERS SERIES
Lady In Disguise
Lady In Demand
Lady In Distress
The Lady Plays Her Ace
The Lady Seals Her Fate
The Lady’s Dangerous Love
The Lady’s Forbidden Love
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How do you spell love, Pooh?
You don’t spell it, Piglet, you feel it.
-Winnie The Pooh.
Chapter 1
“Why are we walking past this place again?”
“We haven’t walked by here lately, have we?” Daniel Dillinger schooled his features to appear confused as he looked at his sister.
“How can you not remember walking by the Duck and Goose Tavern three times in the last week?” Kate looked annoyed. “It may be dark, but I am intelligent enough to be aware that this is familiar.”
Daniel made a scoffing sound as he looked at the tavern. Is she in there? “You are not intelligent, just an excellent actress. You may have others fooled as to your knowledge; I, however, am not one of them. And it’s on our way home, so I fail to see what the issue is.”
“It’s not the direct route,” she muttered, not in the least offended by his slur on her character. With eight siblings it was likely that you would be insulted twice before midday, and taking umbrage really was too much effort.
“Are you hungry, Kate? You’re usually only this grumpy when you are.”
Kate was one half of the twins in the Dillinger family. Dark-haired like him, she sometimes came to assist his clerk when he was busy. Lately he had been inundated with clients, mainly foolish noblemen who had no idea how to manage their failing finances, so he had been collecting her daily to take her with him to work. The fact she usually came with baked goods from his mother was simply an added bonus. Today they’d had treacle cake.
“It’s true I am hungry, and there is always the matter of Peter eating the majority of the food before I get a chance. Plus, tonight we are having custard pudding, and it’s my favorite.”
Daniel’s mouth watered at the prospect, but as he’d chosen to move out of his family’s home some time ago, custard pudding was not in his immediate future.
“There is plenty of food to go around now, Kate. I’m sure they will save you a sliver.” There hadn’t always been, Daniel remembered. He’d been born hungry, and his belly had been empty for many years thereafter.
She huffed out a breath, then made a small choking sound.
“What?” He looked at her, ready to hit her on the back should it be required, yet she appeared all right.
“Sssh.” She elbowed him hard enough in the ribs to make him grunt. “It’s Bernard.”
His sister had recently become engaged to Bernard Simpkin, the man walking toward them with a silly look on his face that matched Kate’s. A doctor and good man, it had to be noted, but his sister came completely undone and giggly when he was near—which was always something of a surprise to her family, as Kate rarely lost her composure.
“Oh, no, not the beauteous Bernard,” he whispered in her ear. “La, how will we cope in the face of his magnificence.” Daniel stepped out of his sister’s reach as she tried to elbow him again.
“I’m going to make you extremely sorry if you keep that up, Daniel.” The words were spoken from the side of her mouth.
“Surely not? Me, your favorite brother? What could you possibly do to me?”
She smiled slyly. “I will tell Mother you’ve not been eating and look pale and sickly.”
He had to concede that as far as threats went, that was a good one.
“Then I’ll say I think you need to come home to us, your family who misses you,” she added in a pious tone. “Home where she can monitor every mouthful you eat and woman you—”
“All right, I’ll be quiet,” Daniel said quickly.
“I thought I’d win.”
“You didn’t win.” No one got a rise out of him quicker than a sibling. “I just don’t want the bedazzling Bernard to see your true self. Then where would we be? Back to the start of our long and extensive search to secure you a husband. No, indeed, we do not want to go through that again.”
“Lord, you are annoying.” Kate was smiling now, although her teeth were gritted.
“I do my best.” Daniel smiled too.
Bernard was indeed a good man, friendly and intelligent. Both Daniel and their eldest brother, Oliver, had had him investigated. The man had not made one misstep in his life.
“Do
