Status Updates From The Accidental Duke (The Ma...

Arabella dismissed the butler with a wave of her hand. “Permit me to speak in a language that is familiar to you and borrow a page from your stratagem, so we understand each other. In short, I renege.”

Don’t mess with her 👏🏽

“My lord, you must stop looking to the past, because your history is written and cannot be changed, but that does not mean that your destiny is set in stone and you are done on this earth.”

Arabella doesn’t care how imperfect he feels after the war 👏🏽

Unless a wayward leaf somehow slipped down her bodice, not that I noticed, and she could not find the rogue frond, so you fished it out for her in a selfless act of chivalry. The lady made no protest that I detected, which bodes well for your wedding night.

Beaulieu is so bluntly funny 😂

Defined by society as an object, as property, as a plaything for men, women measured their future in the lack of opportunity, given they could control nothing of their own fate.

Fuck them, very nicely 🖕🏽☺️🖕🏽

“And you honestly believe that Lady Arabella is the answer, when she was promised to my brother?”

Well dear brother is dead… oh the drama 👀🍿

While I’m enjoying the premise, and the character descriptions... the prose and the dialogue are both overladen with what my, now ex, PhD supervisor would call ‘empty verbage.’