Something Wicked this Way Comes by Claire Delacroix

Author:Claire Delacroix
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

LUCIEN KNEW he shouldn’t have been surprised that he and Sophia had ended up at the same place, absorbing the same view. It had been a jest, all those years ago, how their impulses ran in the same direction. They’d frequently encountered each other in the same corner of the park or in town, and quite by accident.

There had been a time when it had seemed to be a sign that they were meant to be together.

Lucien rode hard back to the castle, fighting against the desire that seemed to have redoubled in their years apart. He could see Sophia softening before his very eyes, slipping from her guise of Miss Findlay and becoming herself again. He felt her thaw. He sensed that she reawakened, and he caught her old audacity in her words. He wanted to heal her, to hold her close, to console her as he had no right to do.

He had no right to even think of her.

Worse, he felt his own resolve softening. If it were not for the baron, he could offer for her. He had more than sufficient fortune. But he had only three days until the baron claimed his due, and Lucien knew all too well the price he would pay.

He couldn’t lose his resolve now. He couldn’t falter now. He had to give Sophia what he could—and that didn’t include a future he didn’t have.

He had to make sure she was safe from the baron, too.

One last game. One last victory.

Then his labor on this earth would be done.

Funny how it no longer felt like a triumph.

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