The Duke Hadn’t Laughed Since the War

with two pieces of evidence and a third I intend to confirm tomorrow.”

“Tell me.”

She set down the pen. This was the withheld card, the thing she had been carrying since the day before, and she laid it on the table between them—not all at once, but edge by edge, the way you lay a document before someone who must judge it fairly.

She told him about the continue reading …