How To Repel The Duke

When all the debutantes of London in 1820 were polishing their waltz, Lady Lucille Bellington was polishing her pistol. When they were honing their smile to hypnotise a potential husband, Lucille was honing her smile to irk her father. When they were perfecting embroidery, she was perfecting martial arts. She has no desire to marry and expressed it to her father, the duke of Fordshire, quite evidently clear. The duke of Fordshire however, vowed to employ anything in his means to get Lucille married even if it requires asking a notorious and desperate rake to seduce his daughter in exchange for his support. Hades, Duke of Trent, happened to be the desperate and notorious rake he required. Trent wanted to solidify his influence in the parliament by passing a bill but when majority of the peers vetoed, his influence might be in jeopardy. The duke of Fordshire's support is just what he needed. How hard can it be to seduce a diffident, dull and pliant virginal lady? Contrary to his expectation however, the only thing he guessed right about Lady Lucille is virginal. And when he saw her for the first time, he was in lust at first sight with her. With the orchestration of a scheme to get Lucille married, she found herself entrapped and in danger of marrying Trent. Thus, she employed all the ways she could, to deem herself unqualified to be the duchess he wanted. Little did she know, Trent already decided to have her in his bed. And so she was bamming him, as he was bamming her. But he wasn't supposed to desire her. Worse, it wasn't in his plan to fall in love with her. And what if she finds out that she's initially just one of his pawns?