Snowbound with the Heir by Sophie Pembroke

Author:Sophie Pembroke
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-09-09T18:48:19+00:00

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Jasper wished he could say that telling Tori his family secret lightened the load he felt on his shoulders, but if anything hearing it out loud only made it feel more real. An inescapable hurricane about to rip his family and life apart because his father hadn’t been able to keep it in his pants and had a misguided belief about the ‘right thing’ to do.

Tori stared at him. He stared back, waiting to see which way she was going to jump.

He realised, a little belatedly, that he was putting an awful lot of trust in his beliefs about Tori Edwards. If she wasn’t the sort of person he thought she was, then telling her even this much could bring about all the outcomes he’d come home to try and avoid.

He watched the emotions and thoughts flickering behind her eyes, and decided he was comfortable with the risk.

She wouldn’t run to the papers. He was pretty much certain of that. Not only would it be detrimental to her own career—because he couldn’t imagine the scandal was going to do a huge amount for Flaxstone Enterprises, either—but she wasn’t that sort of person.

Exactly when he’d come to know Tori well enough to be sure of that...well, he could pinpoint it quite precisely, as it happened. It was last night, when she’d fallen apart in his arms, then put herself back together again.

‘That’s why you left,’ she said finally. ‘I always wondered.’

‘I couldn’t stay.’ Jasper looked back out at the tiny robin, scratching the ice for food. ‘I just... I didn’t know how to deal with it. With any of it. My father, Felix, all the lies... I needed to be somewhere where I didn’t care if people were lying or telling the truth. I needed to not care for a while.’ Because he’d cared so damn much while he was at Flaxstone. All the conflicting emotions he’d experienced on finding out the truth had threatened to burn him up from the inside out, otherwise. ‘Felix never told you?’

Tori shook her head. ‘I had no idea. How did you find out?’ He sensed it wasn’t the question she wanted to ask, which only made him more nervous about what that would turn out to be. He had no doubt that she’d get around to it eventually.

‘I came across a copy of my father’s updated will on his desk one day. Talking about his two sons and heirs. The earl was away and I couldn’t even talk to him about it until the next day.’

‘That was the night you came to me,’ Tori said, putting it together far quicker than he’d expected. ‘I knew there was something different about you that night.’

Jasper looked down at his hands. ‘I felt like a different person that night.’

‘I liked the man I saw that night.’ She pressed her gloved hand over his, and he gripped it tightly, grateful for the small show of comfort. ‘So, the next day you confronted your father for a full confession?’

‘Yeah.

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