She Won the Card Game the Duke Never Lost — He Spent the Rest of the Year Trying to Win Her

The Duke of Ravensmere loses one hand of piquet to a woman whose name he had not troubled to learn, and promises her, in front of a room that will repeat every word of it, anything she cares to name. Charlotte Verity does not name it. She goes home to Half Moon Street — three hundred a year, and a mother who has ordered a gown she cannot pay for — and lets the promise stand: through the calls he begins to pay, through a morning at Hatchard's, through the evening he arrives at nine without notice and finds her alone. London decides what she must be waiting for, and says so where she can hear it. By June the Dowager Duchess is at her door with six thousand pounds, offering to buy the promise back and make it as though it had never happened. Charlotte refuses the money, because it did happen. What she finally asks for — and the December afternoon she walks into Berkeley Square to ask it — is the whole story. ❤️ Subscribe for a new love story every week: @RegentLoveEra 🔔 Turn on notifications so you never miss an episode. 💬 Would you have made the same choice? Tell us in the comments. ✨ Stories about love, family honour, hidden sacrifices, and the quiet battles behind powerful surnames. 📖 Every story, 4K art, on any screen at https://www.embersidestories.com🕯️ ——— ⚠️ DISCLAIMER: All characters, names, events, and storylines in this video are entirely fictional and created for entertainment purposes only. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. This is a work of historical fiction set during the Regency Era (c. 1795–1830) in England. #RegencyEra #RomanceStory #Duke #HistoricalFiction #LoveStory #Regency #PeriodDrama #romantic #Audiobook #Austen