Behind the Rake's Wicked Wager(50)

Pandora staggered back into the bench as she found herself suddenly released from Lord Sugdon’s hot and repulsive embrace, uncaring of the bruising of the metal into the back of her legs as she clutched her ripped gown tightly over her breasts, her face deathly pale as she stared across the terrace at her unexpected—and totally improbable—saviour.

Lord Rupert Stirling, eighth Duke of Stratton. Otherwise known to the ton as simply Devil...