James River 01 - Counterfeit Lady by Jude Deveraux

Author:Jude Deveraux [Deveraux, Jude]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Historical, General, Love Stories, Historical Fiction, Great Britain, Marriage by Proxy, Great Britain - History - 18th Century, Domestic Fiction
ISBN: 9780671739768
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 1984-01-02T05:00:00+00:00

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“Yes. It was a desperate measure, but I felt desper­ate, like I was going crazy.” Nicole moved her cheek against his chest. “No wonder you were so angry when you found out I’d been married to you instead of Bianca. You were expecting a tall blonde, and you got—”

“A little dark beauty with a funny mouth,” he laughed. “If you’d taken a pistol to me, I’d have deserved it. I put you through a lot then.”

“But you were expecting Bianca!” she said in his defense, lifting her head to look at him.

He pushed her back to his shoulder. “Thank God I didn’t get her! I was a fool to think any human could replace another.”

His words sent a thrill through her. “Do you still love Bianca?”

“I never did. I know that now. All I saw was her resemblance to Beth. Even when she came here, I never listened to her or thought about her as anything except Beth. Yet even in that state of ignorance, I knew something was wrong. I thought that when Bianca was in my house everything would be all right again, that I would feel like I did when Beth was alive.”

“But you didn’t?” Nicole said with hope in her voice.

“I have you to thank for that. Even though I say I didn’t hear Bianca, I think that some part of my small brain must have. All I knew was that I didn’t want to return home at night, that I was working harder than I ever had in the last year. But when you were living in the house, I wanted to come home. When Bianca was at the house, I preferred the fields, especially the fields closest to the mill.”

Nicole smiled and kissed his chest through his shirt. His words were the most wonderful she’d ever heard.

“It took Wes to knock some sense into me,” he continued. “When Wes first saw Bianca, I could see how he was affected. I felt justified then for having her in my house and not you. I knew Wes would under­stand.”

“I don’t think Wesley likes Bianca.” Clay chuckled and kissed the tip of her nose. “That’s a polite way of putting it. When he told me he thought she was a vain, arrogant bitch, I hit him. It made me sick, and I didn’t know if I was sick from hitting my friend or from hearing the truth. I left the house and didn’t return for two days. I had a lot of thinking to do. It took me a while, but I began to see what I’d done. And ABC Amber Text Converter Trial version, http://www.processtext.com/abctxt.html

I made myself face the fact that Beth was dead. I’d tried to bring her back through Bianca, but that couldn’t work. What I had, but had ignored for the most part, was the twins. If James and Beth still lived, it was through their children and not some stranger. If I wanted to give Beth

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