Indeed, Max looked down at his card again. He’d met Lily and resigned himself to never look upon her face again. She was everything he was not. What had Vadoma said about fate? He didn’t know about all that but he did know that she was still on his mind. Very much so.
And that he’d determined to never see her again. That was, until tonight.
“What if we don’t do it?” he muttered. “What if we lock ourselves in our homes and don’t come out? What if we just go about our lives?”
“You don’t have to do anything.” Vadoma closed up the rest of the deck she’d had fanned out and tucked them into the pocket of her dress. Then she made her way to the door. As she opened it, she looked back at them. “But you won’t avoid the cards. Your fate will find you.”
Want to find out what happens next? Read the first book in the How to Reform a Rake series:
Don’t Tell a Duke You Love Him
He was too dangerous to be denied…