A Beauty For The Scarred Duke by Bridget Barton

Author:Bridget Barton
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: 0
Published: 2017-09-17T04:00:00+00:00

He had turned his back to her, staring out of the slit of a window that the young Lady Eleanor had gazed out of so many times in her young life. Isabella felt the doll slip a little in its fold of woollen shawl and hastened to secure it.

“When I got here, the ground floor was aflame. The door was opened wide, and I knew my mother must surely have left it so as she tore in to rescue her child. I could do no other than run in through the flames.” He held a protective arm up to the unmarked side of his face, and Isabella knew that he must surely have done exactly that on that awful day. “I could see that nothing would have survived the inferno on the ground floor and ran up the stairs. I had to feel my way, the air was so thick with smoke. And it was the same in here. No flames, nothing on fire, just thick, black smoke. I could see nothing at all, and it felt hot and thick in my lungs.”

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