Taming of the Beast (Scandalous Affairs Book 2) by Christi Caldwell

Taming of the Beast (Scandalous Affairs Book 2) by Christi Caldwell

Author:Christi Caldwell [Caldwell , Christi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-03-23T00:00:00+00:00


Tynan stood there, staring after Faye’s retreating hack as it carried the lady out of the Rookeries and on to her posh, cushy existence.

His breath swirled a little cloud of white around him.

Good.

She’d gone.

Let her go.

Nor, for that matter, should he give two shites whether or not Faye Poplar believed him when he said he’d nothing to do with her attack by Bragger. Now, he was fifty pounds richer from her and free to go about attempting to win back his role of warden. No more strings attached. Not that there ever truly had been where she or anyone else was concerned.

He’d never been about helping people who didn’t in some way serve a purpose to him.

Nay, Tynan had been singular only in his views on strangers: he didn’t need them. Not beyond acquiring the funds that kept a person secure and safe. Money and power were all that stood between him and the workhouse.

But, damn it, for some unexplainable reason, it did bother him. It grated mightily. Her allegations. Her refusal to believe the word he’d given her. Nay, it wasn’t even that. It was that she believed him capable of hurting her. Of sending a man after her to instill holy terror in her. Granted, she was in desperate need of the sentiment, but he wasn’t some bogeyman going about scaring women.

Tynan saw the shifting of a shadow before he heard the approach.

He turned and found Finn there, his hands jammed in his pockets, staring off in the direction Faye’s carriage had just taken.

“She’s gone,” the boy noted.

“Aye, she’s gone,” Tynan said needlessly. And something about her departure this time told him it was the end of Faye Poplar coming around. There’d been a finality that hadn’t been there before in her stricken eyes, a hurt from, ironically, the one betrayal he’d not been guilty of in his life. “And I am better for it.” Only, even as he uttered the words, he had a hard time convincing even himself of it. “I can focus on securing my next post.” His work as a warden, which children like Finn and the other boys and girls who’d once lived in that East London house, had relied upon.

The usually cynical boy’s eyes lit. “Do ye think so? Ye think ye can get back Newgate?” An eager excitement filled the boy’s voice.

Tynan started to answer in the affirmative to that very question. Of course he did. After all, when he’d been locked up in that cell, getting out and reclaiming his place in that prison had sustained him. Only… now, a different voice whispered around his brain.

Do you really believe with your criminal history of bribing the most powerful, you’ll be granted another post as warden?

That bold challenge Faye had thought nothing of putting to him.

The boy’s hopeful expression dipped. “Mr. Wylie?”

She didn’t know what the hell she was talking about. Tynan firmed his jaw. He’d given more credence to her doubts than were deserved. “Have you ever known me to fail?” he countered.



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