Marquess to a Flame by Emily Windsor

Author:Emily Windsor
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: 0
Published: 2019-01-29T16:00:00+00:00

Jack wasn’t sure he’d ever made a woman cry before, but he’d sensed she needed something.

Something of him.

He’d reconciled himself long ago to his mother’s choice and no torment troubled his soul. There had been nothing that Jack, a mere boy, could have done. She’d chosen where her peace lay.

The best he’d been able to do as a son was gently untie the pink ribbons about her wrists, say he’d heard a cry, that she must have slipped, that he’d been too late. Far too late.

In that way, she would at least be granted burial within the churchyard and not banished to unconsecrated land for the manner of her death. He believed God would welcome all. Only man would be so cruel.

They’d laid her next to Vincent. Safe from harm.

And Jack had vowed that as a Winterbourne through and through, he would never hurt a woman in such a way, never crush nor quell, disregard nor pain – neither in body nor spirit.

Father had even missed her funeral due to a new mistress but evidently realised something was amiss as he’d mumbled his gratitude at their next encounter, muttering there would have been nothing worse than a scandal of female madness in the noble Winterbourne lineage.

Bloody fiend. Jack hadn’t done it for him or the Winterbourne name, marred as it already was in defilement and brutality.

He focused on the painting over Tamsyn’s shoulder, saw the love with which it had been imbued.

One had to seize joy in this fleeting life.

And his gaze fell to the woman he held.

“Allow me to share your burden, Tamsyn. Tell me of that night and carry it alone no longer.”

A nod and her clear blue eyes met his. “I want to tell you all, Jack.”

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