Mask

[thewickedquill]

Title: Mask
Challenge/Prompt: Prompt #8: “Wish”
Original Fiction or FanFiction: Original
Characters/Pairings: Arden, Katherine  
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Disclaimer: The words belong to us all but the crafting is mine.
Summary: Good breeding masks true feeling..

 

She fluttered her lashes, blushing daintily.

Arden regarded his dinner companion warily. Of all the women he could have been paired with, his mother had seen fit to place him beside the only lady he had not yet dismissed. Of course, he could not argue the megrims of fate - or his hopeful, expectant mother - in a room full of their society acquaintances.

God, give me strength, he pleaded silently, steeling himself for another evening of mindless chatter and simpering women whose sole purpose was to marry well and look pretty.

Forcing a smile, Arden took Katherine’s hand and kissed it.