Her Stepmother Sent Her to the Duke as a Joke – He Offered Her a Chair Before He Said a Word

forward again. He didn’t drop to one knee—they both knew his leg wouldn’t allow it, and neither of them wanted the theatricality anyway. He simply took both of her ink-stained hands in his large, scarred ones.

“It is a transaction,” Alistair said, though his thumb stroked the backs of her knuckles with an aching tenderness. “I give you the absolute,continue reading …