Wild Desire
David picked out one of the bottles and poured the wine into two long thin flutes.
Bridget’s attention was riveted on the Duke. He was a small, slightly plump but comparatively young man with thick, lank black hair and very dark brown eyes that gave the impression of a certain beadiness, but which were examining every contour of Bridget’s figure quite overtly, apparently oblivious to his wife who stood at his elbow. Celeste Richardson was tall, taller than her husband, and Clare guessed older, her dark auburn hair pinned up to her head, her rather long face etched with lines, her green eyes large and bright. She had an air of detachment about her, as though she were watching everything at on