Unforgiven (The Horsemen Trilogy)
“Lady Rawleigh had taken Moira to the drawing room for tea following dinner, leaving the two men to enjoy a glass of port together. The viscount had just filled their glasses. “You and I have come to a sorry end very soon after regaining our freedom.”
“Sorry?” Kenneth said. “Is that what it is?”
His friend smiled and sat back in his chair. “We are both in marriages not of our own choosing,” he said. “I was seen slinking out of Catherine’s cottage at the dead of night—after she had roundl...y repulsed my less-than-honorable advances, I might add—and set a villageful of tongues to wagging and my twin to threatening death or worse if I refused to do the honorable thing. I did the honorable thing—poor Catherine. I understand your situation was not vastly different?”
Kenneth was not about to describe a certain snowstorm—even to one of his closest friends. “And yet,” he said, “you both seem reasonably contented, Rex.”MoreLess
“Sorry?” Kenneth said. “Is that what it is?”
His friend smiled and sat back in his chair. “We are both in marriages not of our own choosing,” he said. “I was seen slinking out of Catherine’s cottage at the dead of night—after she had roundl...y repulsed my less-than-honorable advances, I might add—and set a villageful of tongues to wagging and my twin to threatening death or worse if I refused to do the honorable thing. I did the honorable thing—poor Catherine. I understand your situation was not vastly different?”
Kenneth was not about to describe a certain snowstorm—even to one of his closest friends. “And yet,” he said, “you both seem reasonably contented, Rex.”MoreLess
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