Chapter 9The next morning, Adrian felt so refreshed after such a late night, he imagined he was still slightly foxed from the brandy. Once breakfast was over, he dutifully attended the Royal Spa with his womenfolk and cheerfully allowed himself to be drawn into conversation with the regular crowd around his cousins.
He was so occupied that he did not see Guy enter the assembly room and only spotted him when he was trying to extricate himself yet again from the talkative major Bridges. It was then that Adrian noticed that he wasn’t alone. After the easy intimacy of the night before, he felt that familiar, uncomfortable surge of misery at seeing Guy with another man. Almost as soon as this swept over him, Adrian tried to let reason conquer raw emotion. Once he was able to survey the situati
