Once Upon a Marquess (Worth Saga Book 1) by Milan Courtney

Author:Milan, Courtney [Milan, Courtney]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9781937248246
Publisher: Courtney Milan
Published: 2015-12-05T16:00:00+00:00

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In the days that followed their meeting, Judith wanted nothing to do with Christian. She didn’t want to think about him or his accusation that she didn’t know Anthony. The notion was utterly ridiculous.

How could she not know her own brother?

The Monday after he’d leveled that piece of poppycock at her, as she was reconciling the account books, she only let herself dwell on his words for a few seconds. A few seconds while she tapped her pencil against the sums.

Christian thought he knew Anthony better than she did? Ha. She’d known him since he was three. He’d been telling on her—and on himself—since she could walk. Her brother had been kind, loving, honest, trustworthy… and possessed of the most rigidly annoying morality that she’d ever encountered in her life.

Christian didn’t know a thing about him, and she would simply have to put his wild accusations out of her mind. They were nothing more than an attempt to justify the unjustifiable.

She had, after all, books to reconcile and a scant hundred and fifty pounds remaining to her name—not enough to see Benedict through his schooling, and certainly not enough to start him on the road to the rest of his life. Christian wasn’t worth a shilling on her accounts.

She refused to think about Christian’s claim on Tuesday, but she let herself imagine his face when she punched the bread dough down.

On Wednesday, she wasn’t thinking of him when she received a letter in the mail. She refused to think of their trip to the country, refused to think of him stopping the carriage and letting her sit in the field. If she admitted that he understood her well enough to know she’d needed to enjoy herself, perhaps her brother, whom he…

No. She wouldn’t go down that road. She refused to do it.

She opened the letter instead. It was from the Rollins family in the Peak District.

Miss Worth, Mr. Rollins wrote. Not Lady Judith; that was already a slap in her face. I believe you have been misled. Your sister did indeed stay with us, but on a temporary basis only. She left after two weeks, and that was quite a number of years ago.

I hesitate to speak ill of anyone, but Camilla was in need of a stricter hand, someone who would teach her the truth about her new place in life.

“What new place in life?” Judith asked the letter aloud.

It didn’t answer. Instead, it went on in a similarly offensive fashion.

For her own good, we sent her to my aunt Charlene in Redding, whose unbending nature would fashion your sister into a young woman who behaved as one of her station ought. Her direction is enclosed.

Judith crumpled the paper, her whole body aching. Two weeks? Camilla had not even had the security of two weeks with them? “Lies,” she said. “Why is everyone lying about my siblings?”

She wrote a letter, trying not to feel bitter, to this Charlene.

The next day, though, brought good news in the post. Somewhat good news.

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