Born for Thorton's Sake by Marcia Lynn McClure

Author:Marcia Lynn McClure [Marcia Lynn McClure]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Distractions Ink
Published: 2010-12-10T13:00:00+00:00

BETROTHED

Brock did not remain away from Thorton Manor for merely weeks. Neither did he remain away for merely months. Lord Brockton Thorton remained afar for an entire year! A year he was gone, a year in which Maria dreamt of him every day and night, waking or sleeping. A year in which she tried to busy herself with her stitching, her music, and accompanying Lady Thorton on charitable visits to Brock’s tenants. An entire year in which she dreamt and planned and waited—waited for the beloved day when Brock would at last return, take her in his arms, and smother her with his delicious kisses.

Maria’s greatest joys during the long, agonizing, lonely year were the letters she received from Brock. She received a letter from him weekly or more often, and she herself wrote nearly each and every day. His letters became her breath, her very life and hope in life. Maria did not know how she would have existed without Brock’s letters, his constant reassurance he loved her, would return to her, dreamt of owning her for his own.

And now, at long last dawned her seventeenth birthday and Brock’s anticipated return. A grand event had been coordinated by Lady Thorton in order to announce Maria’s betrothal to Lord Brockton Thorton, and in anticipation of it, Brock was en route to Thorton Manor.

Brock was expected to arrive at any moment, and Maria’s entire body was plagued by knots and nerves. Letters were one thing, face-to-face quite another. Had he changed? Would he still feel the same toward her? Certainly his letters told her he loved her, professed his misery without her. Yet what if his feelings had changed? Would he still be agreeable to the betrothal? It seemed silly and somewhat disloyal to doubt him. Yet she knew what a profound example of an ideal man he was in feature, form, ethic, and spirit. Would he find great fault or flaw with her upon seeing her again?

Maria opened the bottom drawer of her vanity and removed the last letter she had received from Brock, dated six days before. Once again she read to herself the last words of the letter.

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