Rogues Like it Scot by Eva Devon

Author:Eva Devon
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Bard Publishing Inc
Published: 2017-08-18T18:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

The hand that clapped down on Damian’s shoulder held for a good long moment. “What are ye doing with Andromeda? Be plain.”

Damian did not shirk nor quail under the duke’s hard stare. Rather, he studied the Scotsman for a several seconds then said without reserve. “I’d like to marry your sister.”

Somehow, the duke had managed to get him alone in the corner of the drawing room under the pretense of looking at a particularly old map of the Ottoman Empire.

Clyde choked then dropped his hand from Damian’s shoulder.

Instead of anger, fury, or defiance, the duke’s face softened into pity.

“Och, man, I feel for ye.” Clyde lowered his hand, then shook his head. “Indeed, I do.”

Damian scowled at the man he was beginning to feel was a friend, once more. “I’m not dying. No need for such sympathy.”

“Aye there is.” Clyde pinned him with a determined look. “She willna have ye.”

Damian forced a smile, though inside, he felt a strange tremor of unease. “That terrible, am I?”

“No,” the duke denied quickly. “In fact, I could see her choosing ye.” He shrugged his massive shoulders under his fine coat. “I thought. . . Well, it matters no’ what I thought. But I’m telling ye now, she willna have ye.”

Damian wondered what the devil Clyde was on about. The man was clearly trying to put him off in a kind way, but it wasn’t going to work. “But if I were to ask, you would approve?”

Clyde’s gaze narrowed slightly. “Would it matter?”

“I’ve no desire to run off with your sister,” Damian assured him quietly. “I do not suffer from idiotic ideas of love and I’d prefer to keep you as a friend.”

Clyde sighed. “A business arrangement then. I canna hate ye for it. Liking is as good as loving. And ye two do like each other. Perhaps it’s even better. All those emotions. . . They lead to dark ends.”

“Not always,” he disagreed. Love could be a very pleasant thing if it was achieved. It was rarely achieved though. That he could acknowledge.

“Often.”

Whatever decision the duke had made about passionate love appeared unflappable. So Damian didn’t any waste breath in the attempt to convince Clyde otherwise. That would be for someone else. Another day.

“You would approve?” Damian asked again. Wanting certainty. “Of a marriage between us?”

“Aye,” the duke replied without reserve. Angus looked across the room at his sister then back to Damian. “I like ye better than most men. And I’ve a feeling ye’d leave her to her own devices most of the year.”

“I would,” he acknowledged. Summer was a difficult place in the East. He could return to Scotland or England to be with her and then she could have rule of the roost when he was away in the winter.

Clyde sighed. “Poor devil. Ye’ve cast yer lot in with the wrong woman.”

“She abhors marriage so deeply?” he asked, surprised. She seemed such a vital person, no bitterness to her at all.

“It’s no’ my tale to tell and I doubt she’ll ever share it with ye,” Clyde whispered.

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