Forbidden: A Regency Box Set by Dyken Rachel van

Author:Dyken, Rachel van [Dyken, Rachel van]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: fairytale london romance, Regency, regency fairytale romance, Romance, regency romance, fairytale romance regency, london fair tale romance, london fairtale, london romance, fairtale romance, Anthologies
Amazon: B00RGWJXNK
Goodreads: 24101892
Publisher: Blue Tulip Publishing
Published: 2014-12-24T08:00:00+00:00

A few weeks later, I learned Rebecca had married Hartwell. Just like that. No long engagement. No proper ceremony. I could barely find the energy to get out of bed the next morning. Up until that time, I had still held onto hope that she would change her mind and follow her heart. Her heart led to me, I knew it did. But after the announcement came, I knew better.

That's when the wheels began spinning faster in my mind. If Rebecca had been a pocket watch or some other possession, Simon and Anthony both would have been thrown in jail for thievery. The same went for Rebecca — she was my possession, my own personal love, and they had conspired to take her away from me. Anthony knew exactly what he was doing when he told her I was the bastard son of a duke. He knew it… He'd done it to keep me from marrying her because he didn't feel I was good enough for her.

I'd show him how good I was…

A few months later, I went to a party thrown by Edward Lofton, one of the richest men in all of Darenset — a very important thing to me, indeed, for this man had no title. He had gained his wealth from ownership of a textile factory and, at the time I assumed, luck. I met his daughter there, a naive little thing named Cecelia. She was nothing like Rebecca. Her hair wasn't nearly as spectacular. Her face was a bit too tanned and she had one tooth in the bottom of her mouth that crooked behind the other.

Still…

She seemed smitten with me, and I played the part of smitten lover back. I knew I could never love another woman as I had loved Rebecca, but I also knew that to get anywhere in life, I needed to marry — marry well — and have a family. You may see the irony in this after how ill I thought Rebecca for doing the same, but my heart had hardened. If I couldn't have love with Rebecca, then I would have to settle for money and power. To get that power, I had to marry well and that meant, putting all of my feelings and disgust aside and marrying the mousey Cecelia Lofton

The good thing about our union — the only good thing mind you — was that I got to spend lots of time with her father and learned the ins and outs of the textile factory. When he died, it all became mine: the factory, his wealth, and his collection of sins.

He is the one who taught me how to get ahead in this world. He said if you knew something on someone, then he would do whatever you wanted to keep the sin from getting out. So all I had to do was keep my eyes out, keep my ears open, and I'd learn everyone's sins. Then all I had to do was threaten to expose them and everything I ever wanted would be mine.

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