Between the Duke and the Devil by Devon Eva & Devon Eva

Author:Devon, Eva & Devon, Eva
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Historical, Romance
Publisher: Bard Productions
Published: 2019-04-01T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

The coaches rolled into the castle courtyard one after the other. Each black ducal vehicle, emblazoned with an elaborate coat of arms, made its way through the arched gates of the curtain wall and pulled up before the portcullis entrance. All this was happening as night was falling.

One after another, the doors of the coaches opened, and some of the most powerful men in the country descended.

Tristan stood high in one of the battlements, watching his dearest friends and allies make their way into the castle. He had sent word summoning them almost immediately upon marrying his wife.

The truth was, he needed support now. He needed advice. And he needed to know exactly what to do now that the man who had destroyed his sister’s life had slipped through his fingers. After all, at this moment, it was not simply a peer of the realm that he was trying to kill or destroy.

Oh, no. Now, he was dealing with a royal prince, and a royal prince would not simply beg off when the prince had done the ordering of his marriage to begin with.

Tristan had no idea how he was going to keep Annabelle’s honor intact. Bloody hell, he had no idea how he was going to ensure that she did not end up in the clutches of a prince.

But now that he had Annabelle, he was determined not to let her go. Something had happened in the days since her uncle’s estate. With every night, her entwined in his arms, and here at the castle, his soul had seemed to grow more insistent as it growled a single word again and again.

Mine.

And Tristan was damned certain that she had no desire to go with the prince herself. All her life, she had been a pawn. That was clear to Tristan.

Though she was exceptionally clever and exceptionally talented, he did not believe that she had been living in a situation of her own making.

No, she had learned to thrive in it, to survive in it, to do her very best in it. But she was a victim of the men who had controlled her most likely from the moment of her birth and, still, even to this day.

Now, he wanted to set her free.

Damnation, he wanted her to make her own choices. But it was no easy thing, for could she ever truly know freedom? After all, she was a wife now, a duchess. Period.

If one had to be a woman, he supposed being a duchess was the best thing a woman could be, for she had more power, more wealth than most women could ever dream of.

Furthermore, it was within his power as her husband, a duke, to give her a great deal of freedom. He was determined that she would have it.

But unless he could figure out how to deal with the prince, she would be lost, and so would he. For even as a duke, he still had to obey. There was little he could do right now except for seek out the help of others.

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