Alison's Scandalous Affair (The Fallen Angels NOVELLA series Book 1) by Julianna Hughes

Author:Julianna Hughes [Hughes, Julianna]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2018-10-22T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Alison was falling in love. Which was disastrous. Actually, she was afraid she was already in love with John. And that was before she learned he played games with her daughters—something Amanda had never reported to her.

And apparently, he enjoyed it too. Something her husband would have never done, much less admit to. She might have chalked it up to John’s attempts to persuade her into a courtship. She knew that was what he really wanted, not just a friendship with her. And despite her resolve to keep their relationship on a friendly footing, she was falling in love with this wonderful, sweet man who had threaded himself into her life.

Her husband had simple but unbendable rules where children were concerned. But one of his main rules was, Gentlemen do not play with children. It just isn't dignified. He had told her that so often that she began cringing whenever Becky would go near him. Sadly, her daughter had eventually figured out that her father didn't want anything to do with her, and it had broken Alison's heart, as Becky had adored him.

What made it worse was that Alison had known it was a lie. At least, it hadn’t been true about some of the other officers who had their children with them. But her husband didn't play with children. In fact, he didn't even like being around anyone else's children. Children should be seen when necessary but never heard. At least not by him. That was her job. Hers and the nursemaid he had allowed her to hire.

Of course, Phillip had other rules where Becky was concerned. Rules that insured he had very little to do with a messy, noisy, troublesome child. Not that Becky had been any more of those things than any other child of her age. He wouldn't have known that though, as he avoided all children under the age of eighteen. Especially if they happened to be female. Of course, his edicts had also ensured that he had spent very little time around Alison as well.

It is a woman's job to raise the children. And it is a man's job to protect and care for them. At least in that regard she had no complaints. Phillip had protected and cared for them, and he had financially provided for them. Very generously in fact. He had just done so from as far away as he could. Especially during the last several years of their marriage.

As a young child, Becky had been devastated by his aloof attitude. She couldn't understand why her father wouldn't have anything to do with her. Not that he had ever been mean or hateful, he just had no patience with Becky.

Alison was jarred back to the present when John handed her down from his coach, and then helped the two little girls down as well. Off to her right, she could see Gregory and Helen exiting the second coach in their little caravan. Becky quickly followed, and then Mary. Once the others joined them, he turned her toward the older woman he had hugged.

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