Noble exhaled. He was hoping that some of the tension would come with it, but it wasn't quite successful. He couldn't hold Ford's skipping the event against him, even though a part of him wished he could. Neither of them had ever wanted the position they were in even before tonight. "I didn't want to be there," Noble said, tone a little wry, "I was hoping she'd let us leave early." He didn't love balls, and of all their sisters Verity was the one he least knew how to manage — and while he knew he wouldn't have been able to move any faster if it had been one of the others, a part of him still felt guilty about it.
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