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They were ostensibly the busy couple they’d nearly interrupted earlier, Jenny gathered. "Duchess," Nicholas said, “We were just on our way to find you.”
"Oh, what for?" she asked, her fine brows furrowing.
"I regret that we must leave sooner than expected."
With a suggestive smile, she looked from Nicholas to Jenny and back. "Oh, you don’t need to make an excuse for that. Icompletelyunderstand."
Jenny's disappointment only grew at the duchess’s insinuation, for she knew that her relationship with Nicholas was currently on a different course. A course that may very well be its end.
"Care to introduce me to your friends, Beatrice?" The young man asked with a thick accent.
"Perhaps next time, Alexei," she replied, her gaze still locked on them.
Jenny did not care to know about the woman’s Russian lover or how shameless she was. She was only too eager to get away. Slipping her hand from Nicholas’s, she started down the hall after giving the duchess a small nod.
