Lawrence Bedford

Lawrence Bedford, a character in The Duchess Affair book, is your husband and the Duke of Sussington. He is first seen in Chapter 1.

Appearance
Lawrence has short wavy brown hair tied into a ponytail, brown eyes, and light skin. He wears a brown blazer with silver patterns, a gray and purple scarf with silver patterns, a yellow vest, and a white long cravat.

Personality
Although Lawrence can be proper and polite in respected company, he appears to not enjoy the decorum and would rather work on expanding his business and spending time with fellow men at their private clubs. He prefers to delegate the responsibility of societal expectations on his wife and his employees, including Nat, rather than make the required attendance to social functions.

The Duchess Affair

 * Chapter 1: A Daring Debuting
 * Chapter 2: The New Tutor
 * Chapter 3: Country Gossip
 * Chapter 4: As the French Say
 * Chapter 5: On Your Own
 * Chapter 6: A Bloom with a View
 * Chapter 8: In the Hunt
 * Chapter 9: London Calling
 * Chapter 10: All That Glitters
 * Chapter 11: A Private Performance
 * Chapter 12: A Spectacular Spectacle
 * Chapter 13: All Is Lost
 * Chapter 14: A Dangerous Dance
 * Chapter 15: Behind the Mask
 * Chapter 16: A Royal Labyrinth
 * Chapter 17: Caught in the Act
 * Chapter 18: Dueling Hearts

Your Character
Because the Duke just recently received his title, his marriage to you, the daughter of a Viscount whose lineage holds more weight, is advantageous to the both of you. He gains the respectability of your family and your family gains his wealth. You find him rather boorish and misogynistic because he looks down on your gender and thinks women possess neither a fine palate nor the intellect to understand business matters. He appears content on keeping your relationship as a marriage of convenience because he does not seek you for comfort or intimacy, and would rather talk amongst his male peers than with you. When you try to improve your relationship with him, he basically shuts you down and appears put off by such a request.

In Chapter 8, if you decide to partner with your husband instead of Nat, your advice to him regarding the hunt is ignored to your detriment. When a boar attacks, he is either too inexperienced or stunned to help and Nat has to save your life. It takes Mina Bitmore to admonish him for him to apologize to you. However, once he leads you back to the manor and to the rest of the hunting party, he drops your arm and goes off to speak to the men.

At the end of Chapter 16, he catches you and Nat together. Even if you previously resisted Nat's advances or did not romance Nat fully, you two share a kiss which Lawrence and Sir Somerville happen to walk in on. Because he views this as a "betrayal" on your side, he considers leaving you and allowing your reputation to be tarnished in the process. However, Nat convinces him that he would lose the prestige of your family's heritage and it would ruin him as well. To save you both from that fate, Nat challenges Lawrence to a duel, which he accepts.

After the duel, you discover that Lawrence has three other mistresses besides Mina. You have the opportunity to tell Mina and destroy Lawrence's extramarital affairs, or keep what you've learned to yourself. If you decide the former, Mina helps you with your revenge.

Mr. Penderton
Mr. Penderton is Lawrence's personal valet. According to Miss Campbell, his loyalty is entirely to the Duke.

Mina Bitmore
In Chapter 10, you discover that Mina Bitmore is having an affair with Lawrence. In Chapter 18, you have the choice to tell Mina you know of her affair with Lawrence, and bring to her attention his dalliances with other women. If you decide to do so, she makes it a point to destroy his relationships with those women by writing them and including proof of his actions. To prevent him for future affairs, she also writes that he contracted a sexually transmitted disease and that all women should be wary of him.

Trivia

 * His character model resembles Tucker Paisley from Red Carpet Diaries series.