We have Emma and Lytham

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Moves to:



Since Lytham now owns her home due to her father gambling it away (her father was depressed and desperate after fighting with his son and disowning him due to a cheating scandal), Emma must become a companion to her friend who happens to be rich and newly widowed. Lytham offers to travel with her to Bath.

Lytham gets shot in the shoulder by a (random plot point) mystery man, he thinks it may be Emma's brother, on their way to Bath. Emma's brother has been missing ever since he got into a fight with their father over indirectly causing the death of Lytham's brother. The brother thought Emma's brother was sleeping with his wife.



Lytham heals at an Inn where Emma is seen helping him to his room and mistaken for a whore. Lytham heals and Emma joins her friend.

Girls Gone Wild in Bath!



Unfortunately, her friend is being seduced by the Earl of Lindisfarne, who Emma hates. He is rude and vulgar and Emma thinks he just wants her friend's money. Emma's friend is head over heels for Lindisfarne and will hear none of it. Emma's reputation around town starts suffer as Lindisfarne and her friend make a spectacle of themselves, plus rumors of her being seen entering a man's room at an Inn start to circulate.



Lindisfarne and Emma have a face off and he makes an aggressive move for her, which Emma's friend sees and doesn't immediately believe Emma's side of things.



Emma goes to Lytham's aunt but the aunt's butler claims the lady is not receiving. Emma thinks the aunt is shunning her and now she thinks Lytham being out of town is a convenient cover and he wants nothing to do with her, so she flees back home to her vicar's home. (Lytham had a lot of sudden business trips that were very ill timed, I'd check his credit card bills to see what he was really up to)



When Lytham catches up to Emma, he explains it's all been a misunderstanding but would she like to be his mistress? He says it as a joke because he has a mischievous (dickhead) side but Emma is first insulted and then turned on.



They travel back to his home where Lytham plans on telling Emma that he is really going to marry her but of course he is instead shot in the shoulder again,



but also falls off a cliff.



The (random plot point) mystery man turns out to be a man Lytham thought long dead but had indirectly (like, hugely indirectly) gotten court-martial for raping an officer's wife.



Emma is distraught and walks the shoreline looking for Lytham every day and night. Lytham's servants and townspeople, not so much. No one sends out a search party, everyone is like, eh, he'll show up eventually.

Turns out Emma's brother finds Lytham and helps to nurse him back to health. He doesn't alert anyone though, because he doesn't want to be blamed for shooting Lytham and wants to wait until Lytham can tell everyone he wasn't the shooter.



Unfortantely, Lytham wakes up with amnesia and can't even remember his own name.



Intermission:



After Emma's brother gives Lytham the bare facts about who he is, Lytham returns to society and Emma.



But, since Emma was staying at Lytham's house, Lytham's aunt has put it out that they were engaged and Emma has went along with it, even though she thought she was going to only be his mistress.



Lytham begins to court Emma and they plan for wedding while Emma sweats out her lies. Lytham meets up with Lindisfarne and even though he doesn't remember him, he senses he doesn't like him. Emma's friend saw the light and dumped Lindisfarne (very sudden for how crazy she was over him) and he blames Emma and Lytham. Lindisfarne challenges Lytham to a boxing match. He accepts!



Lindisfarne lands a good one on Lytham that knocks him off his feet cracking his head on the floor.
He regains his memory.



Lytham is away on a business again (better even check the phone bill too, girl!) and Emma goes to a ball without him. Lindisfarne accosts her, again.



This time however, Lytham storms in, saves the day, and challenges him to a duel with swords.



Lytham wins the duel, tells Emma he regained his memory and wanted to wed her all along.



They get married and live happily ever after. (But on the run for a couple months because the Prince Regent is upset Lytham dueled and almost killed Lindisfarne. Emma's brother is restored to society and is set to marry Lytham's dead brother's wife, you know, the lady from the whole murky cheating storyline that started this whole thing off. Don't follow? Good, because I barely did.)



*What I have relayed, of course, all happens in a very buttoned up British way. ( )