Chapter 17To say that men can be bullheaded would be insulting to the bull .
Lady Whistledown's Society Papers, 2 June 1813
In the end, Daphne did the only thing she knew how to do. The Bridgertons had always been a loud and boisterous family, not a one of them prone to keeping secrets or holding grudges.
So she tried to talk to Simon. To reason with him.
The following morning (she had no idea where he had spent the night; wherever it was, it hadn't been their bed) she found him in his study. It was a dark, overbearingly masculine room, probably decorated by Simon's father. Daphne was frankly surprised that Simon would feel comfortable in such surroundings; he hated reminders of the old duke.
But Simon, clearly, was not uncomfortable. He was sitting behind his desk, his feet insolentl
