His Lordship's Downfall: The Complete Edition by Josie Litton

Author:Josie Litton [Litton, Josie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Josie Litton Books
Published: 2018-06-11T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

Mister Jameson is entirely in agreement with me,” Jane said. Her imperviousness to his lordship’s distress was equaled only by her intolerably smug self-righteousness.

Without a flicker of remorse, she cut off all hope of rescue from what should have been his most loyal servant.

“The rest of the staff will be guided by him. He and many of them have known you your entire life. They are truly fond of you. But the promise you showed as a boy has not come to fruition, at least not yet. As for the good people who work your lands, thanks to your antics, they have become adroit at seeing nothing that it does not benefit them to see.”

Lord Adrian stared at her in dawning disbelief. Narrowed eyes, lovely mouth a bit thinned, hands on the hips he so liked to grasp while thrusting into her, voice a notch chillier…

Was she scolding him?

By god, that was not to be tolerated. And it would not be. There was a fatal flaw to her insane plan.

“You forget, I have duties, responsibilities--” He would be missed, damn it. He bloody well better be or there would be hell to pay.

“Parliament is in recess,” she pointed out. “His Majesty is on an extended photographic safari in Kenya. The flow of papers from London that require your attention has subsided to a trickle and what does come, I can handle perfectly well.”

“You?” She really was mad. Certifiable. Shame he hadn’t noticed sooner; he could have packed her off to some perfectly nice institution where she would have been right at home.

“I have already been doing so for several weeks, milord, or did you not notice that your workload had fallen off sharply? I have a month, by my best estimate, to see to it that you become a better man. I don’t intend to waste a moment.”

A new, heightened sense of dread assailed his lordship. He was beginning to believe that she might be serious. To seek revenge was entirely human and understandable, not that she had any legitimate cause to do so. But to go further, to actually try to remake him in some way…

What had she said: This is for your own good? Were those not the very words deployed to justify innumerable acts of tyranny from the pettiest domestic matters to the most ghastly atrocities? He had used them himself, or close enough, when imposing various policies for the benefit of the empire, if not necessarily the individuals within it.

A chill ran down his back. He couldn’t be undone by her, absolutely not. Never mind whatever it was he thought he’d sensed on the altar. He’d been drugged, damn it--delusional, hallucinating. But he was over all that now.

She was merely a woman, admittedly one with an astounding disregard for both propriety and her own safety. But still just a woman. All his life, he had ignored the efforts of females to shape him to their own designs, first skipping from frantic nannies, later slipping from silken arms.

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