An Uncommon Betrothal: Chapter Sixteen
The boys take the train down to Brighton.
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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Alexos dozed on the train. He didn’t often travel by train, but then again, he didn’t often travel at all — certainly, when he did travel, it was either with his mother and father, or entirely alone.
He wasn’t accustomed to sharing a booth with a fellow passenger, least of all, several — when travelling with Brydon, he normally stayed alone in the carriage and read, edited through his own notes, whilst Brydon found someone more interesting to chat to in…
