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

intend to buy something with it. I am not shopping for a husband in London. I am auditing your timber accounts. The trees do not seem to care that I am a fallen woman.”

Alistair’s eyes gleamed with dark amusement. “Pragmatic to the bone.”

“It is how I survived.”

A sudden, sharp knocking at the main entrance shattered the morning quiet. It was not the continue reading …