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“That is not true!”
Rather than answering, Lily bestowed one of her ‘all-knowing’ looks before turning away.
“I just do not think Joseph should marry before Elijah.” They both knew that was not true. “Elijahisthe elder and should marry first.” Since Josie could not imagine any woman tolerating him, that would take quite some time. None of the Stuart brothers were pushovers, but Joseph and Adam were far more easily managed than Elijah. It was why she and Elijah were forever butting heads—the man was impossible.
“Perhaps you should tell Joseph… oh, what ishedoing here?” Lily stiffened, drawing Josie’s attention to peer in the same direction Lily was now looking. Captain Jones and Elijah had entered the ballroom together, both of them casting glances around as if looking for someone.
Two someones.
They had been keeping an annoyingly close eye on Lily and Josie since Mary’s abduction, with Captain Jones dogging Lily’s footsteps, and Elijah stalking hers. Pressing her lips together, Josie shook her head.
Bloody men. She was sick of all of them. Maybe she should become an eccentric spinster.
If it wasn’t for Evie’s request to help her uncover a traitor, Josie would be well on her way home already, no matter how dismayed her mother would be. Of course, technically, the traitor had been found—the man who had planned a duke’s assassination—but he had not been the mastermind. Josie was determined to see this mission through to its end. Even if it meant watching Joseph Stuart courting Miss Bliss while her least favorite Stuart brother breathed down her neck.
