Oz considered that with a hint of amusement. Of course she had a knack for scandal. She had family in society and she was a ballerina. He didn't know the exact history that had led to this arrangement, but he knew it could not have come about without a scandal of some sort. And from what he knew of Sophia before seeing her in the ballroom... suffice to say, she didn't seem the sort to deny herself something she wanted, and so much of polite society depended on everyone pretending they wanted nothing at all.
"Your family is short-sighted," he said, picking up his wine glass again and leaning back in his chair, one arm tossed over the backrest. "Cultivating one or two minor scandals insulates you from speculation about any others." That had been his experience of things, anyway. He leaned in to the perceptions society had that he and his wife never got along and that he was always on the hunt for new women to flirt with, and no one suspected him of anything else — or if they did they didn't dare mention it loudly enough that it would ever make its way back to him.
"Did you reassure them that I'm merely a poorly reformed rake, with no serious intentions to seduce you?" he goaded lightly.
"Your family is short-sighted," he said, picking up his wine glass again and leaning back in his chair, one arm tossed over the backrest. "Cultivating one or two minor scandals insulates you from speculation about any others." That had been his experience of things, anyway. He leaned in to the perceptions society had that he and his wife never got along and that he was always on the hunt for new women to flirt with, and no one suspected him of anything else — or if they did they didn't dare mention it loudly enough that it would ever make its way back to him.
"Did you reassure them that I'm merely a poorly reformed rake, with no serious intentions to seduce you?" he goaded lightly.
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