Pirate's Bride (Liberty's Ladies) by Vinet Lynette

Author:Vinet, Lynette [Vinet, Lynette]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance
Publisher: Steel Magnolia Press
Published: 2013-06-13T21:00:00+00:00

Nathaniel Talbot felt unbearably weak, but he refused to give in to the sickness which plagued him. Even now, as he penned the note to his daughter, he could hardly gather the strength to move the quill across the parchment. But he must warn her, must do the only noble thing he’d ever done for the girl.

His penmanship was ungodly awful, and he wondered if he were fortunate enough to find a loyal servant to send the note to Bethlyn would she be able to decipher his handwriting. He prayed so, prayed she’d realize the seriousness of the situation.

Thomas Eversley was slowly killing him.

Nathaniel knew this and could do nothing to stop the man. It was now too late to save himself. He hadn’t realized that the acute stomach pains, the loss of his hair, and the weakness he’d suffered over the last two months were due to arsenic poisoning. He’d trusted Eversley to care for him when he first started with what he thought was the grippe. Nathaniel nearly laughed, but he was so weak he couldn’t summon the strength. All of his energy was in moving the quill across the paper.

“Bastard,” he mumbled, and leaned against his pillow for a moment as a wave of nausea rolled over him. He’d thought Thomas was his friend, at the very least a trusted employee. His condition proved the opposite. All of those evenings he’d sat discussing business with Thomas, drinking the wine the man offered to him, wine from his own stock which he realized now had been doctored with arsenic. He’d been a trusting, blind fool, imagining himself to be invincible. But Thomas wanted him dead, and by the time Nathaniel realized he was being poisoned, it was too late.

The door to his room was locked. He, the powerful Earl of Dunsmoor, was a virtual prisoner in his own house. A house which Thomas now used as his own, and Nathaniel didn’t doubt that the papers he’d been forced to sign, giving Thomas control of Briston Shipping, were the two reasons Thomas wanted him dead. But he’d only signed the documents because he felt too ill to run the company himself, having no idea at the time that Thomas was slowly killing him.

With heavy lids, the earl forced himself to keep his eyes open, watching the sunshine stream through the windows. He’d thought a great deal about death lately and wondered if when he died would his soul meld with the sun. He wanted to think he’d see Jessica again, but she was no doubt an angel and he’d be … Well, he didn’t wish to think about what private hell awaited him. He’d taken Jessica from her husband, seduced her actually, until she was so besotted with him and the passion he introduced her to that she couldn’t be blamed for their sin. Matthew Briston had been a less than passionate man, from what he remembered about the man. If Matthew had truly loved her, he wouldn’t have let her leave with her seducer.

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