The Accidental Elopement: A humorous, matchmaking second chance Regency Romance (Scandalous Miss Brightwell Series Book 4) by Beverley Oakley

Author:Beverley Oakley [Oakley, Beverley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-02-22T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

Jack had taken the unconventional approach to Quamby House, cutting across the back garden having slipped through a hole in the hedge after being visited by quite an outrageously impulsive plan to see his…mother. Yes, he’d come purely to see his mother whom he was sure would be visiting her friends, Ladies Fenton and Quamby.

Katherine was unlikely to be there, so, as there was no reason to concern Odette with that faint possibility, he hadn’t thought it warranted mentioning. Besides, Odette had various fittings with the dressmaker and had been in a fluster as to certain important decisions regarding the merits of lace or beading.

Jack didn’t mind that Odette liked to know what he was doing at all times. With her father so ill, she really only had Jack to look to. She’d depend upon him for the rest of their lives, so the fact he could be her rock in a stormy sea now, when her father’s illness was draining her, meant a great deal to him.

Jack liked to help and be needed. He was a man who did not shirk from life’s challenges. He was not a man like his father who would abandon those who depended upon him. The challenge of finding that his heart was not dancing to the tune of moral necessity disturbed him deeply. That kiss in the darkness with Katherine had been more than unsettling. It had tilted him off his moral axis. He should never have kissed her in the first place. Even now, three days later, he wondered what he’d been thinking. He hadn’t. He’d just done what had seemed the most natural, pleasurable thing in the world, and now he couldn’t get Katherine out of his mind.

It was a good thing she was about to become betrothed to Lord Derry. Jack would ensure their paths would not cross until he was thoroughly immersed in the role he’d not undertaken lightly: to be a good husband and a good father.

Yes, the moment he was a father to the children he and Odette would have, he knew his heart would act in line with the moral fibre of his being. Nothing and no one would tempt him from being the most devoted and loyal husband and father.

When, to his surprise, he saw his mother and a small figure he took to be Diana, strolling across the lawn in his direction, he was both pleased and disappointed. His intention had been purely to see his mother—of course—and now he could do so without fear of running into Katherine. And that was a very good thing. A very good thing, he told himself. For then he could answer all of Odette’s questions about what he’d done that day with complete transparency.

“Why, Jack, this is the most wonderful surprise!” his mother greeted him when she was close enough to identify him and had appeared round the bend of the gravel path that bordered the small stream. She bent down to the little girl. “Diana,

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