As a Dare, They Sat Her Beside the Most Feared Man in Room — So, she smiled, and he fell in love

It began as a dare — the empty chair, the most feared man at the table, and a woman who found that rather beside the point. Cecily Dunmore had never been afraid of serious men. Ezra Westbrook, the Duke of Rasmoor, had never met anyone who simply looked at him and waited. What followed was not a conquest or a courtship, exactly — it was two very honest people slowly realising they had found the one person they could not quite put away. Thucydides knew first. He usually did. As a Dare, They Sat Her Beside the Most Feared Man in Room — So, she smiled, and he fell in love