Libertine's Wife
““You were to have wed once?”
“My father arranged it when I was a child,” Garret informed her with a tightening of his lips.
“You can imagine I wasn’t pleased about that? Helms tried to get me out of it for years after my father died. Her family refused to allow me to cry off without some good reason I would give.”
“What was your reason not to marry her?”
“She caused the injury of someone very close to me. He was set upon by the thugs she hired to get rid of him. She believed he was influencing ...me to cry off the engagement.”
“What happened to him?”
“He was beaten quite badly; nearly to death. He survived to tell tales,” Garret told her bluntly. “The assailants she hired thought him dead. He managed to get back to my residence.”
“You refused to marry her then?”
“I publically refused, in a manner which earned me the lady’s spite,” Garret said carefully.
“She is no friend to me, and certainly never one to you.”
“I appreciate your candor, Garret,”MoreLess
“My father arranged it when I was a child,” Garret informed her with a tightening of his lips.
“You can imagine I wasn’t pleased about that? Helms tried to get me out of it for years after my father died. Her family refused to allow me to cry off without some good reason I would give.”
“What was your reason not to marry her?”
“She caused the injury of someone very close to me. He was set upon by the thugs she hired to get rid of him. She believed he was influencing ...me to cry off the engagement.”
“What happened to him?”
“He was beaten quite badly; nearly to death. He survived to tell tales,” Garret told her bluntly. “The assailants she hired thought him dead. He managed to get back to my residence.”
“You refused to marry her then?”
“I publically refused, in a manner which earned me the lady’s spite,” Garret said carefully.
“She is no friend to me, and certainly never one to you.”
“I appreciate your candor, Garret,”MoreLess
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