Chapter 26
“Why don’t you come out to Seabrooke for a while?” Seaforth asked as he took a chair across from Julien.
“I was under the impression that your fiancée and my aunt had decided that I should remain in London.” Julien glanced at the clock. There were still several hours before he had to meet Tooley and Beeton. “I thought my leaving London would bring too much speculation, that I was to continue appearing in Society as if nothing unusual had happened.”
Seaforth looked exasperated, which hardly surprised Julien, since he’d been expertly avoiding any real conversation with his friend. “You know as well as I do that the gossip about young Mayfield has all but ceased since the arrival of his brothers.”
Julien kept his expression neutral despite the surge of anger that went through h
