Loving Sarah by Sandy Raven

Author:Sandy Raven [Raven, Sandy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Romance, Historical, Regency, Historical Romance
Amazon: B00IMNWM3K
Barnesnoble: B00IMNWM3K
Goodreads: 20909720
Publisher: Sandy Raven LLC
Published: 2014-02-22T16:00:00+00:00

“It was never my intent to sail forever. Only until my predecessor cocked up his toes and I could be free to settle in one location. Then perhaps marry one day.” Ian sipped the smooth liquor and contemplated his future with Sarah. His main priority now was to protect her from his grandfather. The man might use her against him.

The duke tapped the ash from his cigar in a dish and reclined in his deep-cushioned leather chair. “You must explain to me how a harmless old man has kept you from taking root somewhere? Your grandfather frequented my club when he used to come to Town.” His new brother-in-law looked at him curiously, then at Camden sitting next to him on the settee, with Lucky across from Caversham in a matching, dark-leather wing-back. “I know the man. He is an honorable sort—a bit gruff at times—but always straightforward.”

Ian puffed on his cigar and stared into his glass. Memories of what he’d witnessed that afternoon when he’d walked in on his grandfather and his friend flooded his mind. Ian knew his grandfather’s friend as a fellow survivor of the Siege at Charleston, a junior officer at the time of the battle that sank their ship. Though he could not forget the scene he’d stumbled upon, Ian had never spoken of it. He wasn’t even sure he could now, except that he wanted to protect Sarah.

The last time he saw his grandfather, it was for his forced annual visit, the month before his seventeenth birthday, and just weeks before the start of his first term at Oxford. For the first few years of his life in England, one or the other of his aunts would accompany him on these visits north. On this particular visit, Ian made the trip on his own. The ship upon which he’d traveled had arrived several hours earlier than the appointed time, and Ian was happy because he hoped to be done with the annual tirade in time to catch that return packet to London the very same evening, eliminating an overnight stay in the man’s home.

His grandfather’s house was surprisingly understaffed when he arrived, and he initially attributed it to the servants’ day off. In hindsight, he should have known the man was deep in debt because his aunts had dropped hints at just that very thing during his most recent visit to see them. Ian let himself into the unlocked house after knocking several times and strode into his grandfather’s office, knowing if he were home, that was where the man would be. He was, but the commander was not alone.

Shock unlike anything he’d ever experienced registered in his brain, freezing him momentarily to the spot. It took a moment to comprehend what exactly he was witnessing, but there was no mistaking it. Ian was certain the expression on their faces was very much like his. It seemed his grandfather had not been expecting him to arrive early.

In his stupefied stillness, Ian watched as the

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