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An Uncommon Betrothal: Chapter Eighteen
Alexos makes new friends at Larry’s dinner.
Alexos Fox is of course quite sad when the long-time butler of his household, the man who all but raised him, retires. He is not at all prepared for the old man’s replacement: his exceedingly attractive and painfully tempting nephew, Harry Sutton.
Alexos, overcome with feelings that are simply too much to repress, tries his best to avoid him, but it seems that Mr Sutton has more than his employment on his mind as he attends his new employer with keen and concentrated focus.
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Virtually upon sight, Alexos had decided he did not like Cherry Flintman.
When they have arrived at the poorly named restaurant, it had been Flintman who had ushered he and Larry through the restaurant proper and upstairs. He did not introduce himself, nor ask after Alexos’ name — he chattered loudly to Larry and Alexos both about costuming and cigarettes and an argument he’d apparently had with a moth the night…
