Enamoured (The Enslaved Duet Book 2) by Giana Darling

Author:Giana Darling [Darling, Giana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: The Enslaved Duet, Book Two
Publisher: Giana Darling Books
Published: 2019-11-05T16:00:00+00:00

Alexander

The man we needed to see lived in a large home in a small town in Upstate New York, and he had done since he immigrated to this country after being tossed out of the upper crust of British Society. I knew this because I had helped to relocate him and his money to the new country in order to keep him safe from further harm.

I had told Cosima the story about what happened after she disappeared at our wedding, how I’d decided to head the Order’s demands and punish Simon Wentworth for the exact crimes I myself had committed. She had listened with pursed lips and sad eyes, keeping her condemnations to herself. Ours was not a world of black and white, and she knew better than to guilt me about Simon when I’d been forced in to an impossible position. We’d both made tough choices, and we both knew what it meant to live with them.

Still, I was watching her face when we pulled up the drive of the old stone house and knocked on the door. I wanted to see how she would react to the reveal.

She didn’t disappoint.

The moment Simon Wentworth opened the door, she gasped.

I was right. She recognized him from the night of The Hunt.

She recoiled a step just as Simon’s pale, pleasant face broke into a wide grin, and he stepped forward to embrace me a back-thumping embrace.

“Thornton, old chap, what the hell are you doing on my doorstep?” He laughed as he pulled back. “It’s been an age since you telephoned.”

“I’ve been busy,” I said, inclining my head to Cosima at my left to indicate just how busy I had been.

Simon’s face collapsed like a sandcastle into the sea. He stared at Cosima for a long moment, emotions playing out behind his eyes as he absorbed the shock of seeing her standing there.

“You remember me,” he breathed finally, his expression creased and stained with old memories and stale shame.

Cosima hesitated, then nodded, moving slightly toward me in an unconscious appeal for comfort. I heeded it, taking her far hip in my grip to move her into my side.

“I, well, I don’t really know what to say,” Simon confessed, blowing out a gust of air as he ran a hand through his thicket of hair. “I was abominable, really. Just the worst of the worst. All I can offer is that I was terrified and in love. At the time, going after you seemed the best course of action.”

“Because you were worried they would find out about you and your slave?” she asked quietly.

“Daisy,” he said as his face spasmed with pain, and his voice dropped to a breathless whisper. “Her name was Daisy.”

“They killed her?” she confirmed; her eyes so wide and gold they rivaled the sun glaring coldly from the winter sky.

Simon took comfort in those eyes, straightening his spine as he nodded. “They did. Before they got to me, they found her, and…well, no need to rehash the details. Needless to say, I am terribly sorry for my behavior.

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