The Red Rose and the White
And he would have her. Despite the light and music and plentiful women (whose morals became progressively looser the richer they were), François Devaux was utterly bored. He was not royalty nor nobility, but a very wealthy businessman. A businessman whom held the purse strings of a great many of the nobles who were now dripping in the very same jewels his loans helped them to keep. That alone would have given cause for his invitation to a royal ball. It was for his devastatingly handsome...
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