“Chas knew he’d have to wed in the near future, to provide heirs to the Ashmead estate and titles. That and nurturing his properties and dependents were his raisons d’etre, according to his mother, drummed into him since birth. Begetting more little blue bloods was one of the prime obligations that the country demanded of its nobles. The viscount wouldn’t even mind having children, little lace-capped infants, sturdy sons to trail after him about the estate, dainty moppets who would look just lik...e their mother. The problem was, he could put no face to this future bearer of his heirs. Chas had spent most of his life—since thinking he would become a pirate—thinking that he would marry Ada Westlake, when the time was right. He’d believed she was his, his friend and companion, his laughing bride, the loving mother to his children, when the time was right. He’d thought wrong. That time was never going to come. Still, he could not retire from the world, nursing his broken dreams along with his perhaps broken wrist.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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