All I Want For Christmas Is A Duke - Plot & Excerpts
—Mister X Eight years later December 10, 1858 28 Foley Street If a certain activity involved too much physical commitment, say, galloping one’s horse off a designated snowy path in order to jump over a large holly bush, Martin Nicholas Pierce, the sixth duke of Somerset, did not do it. Nay. The head gardener would have removed that holly bush long before his horse had ever gotten there, because he only ever rode on those paths that guaranteed his neck and his nerves would remain intact. Of course that was well before he met his eighty-year-old great aunt, Lady Ernastine. Or rather, Mrs. Granger, as she preferred to be called. There was a reason his entire family had ostracized the poor woman for well over sixty years. Because she didn’t seem to understand reality. Or the dire situation she was in. A large roach with dangling antennae navigating its path along the uneven wooden floorboards, then paused beside his well-polished black leather boot.
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