The Baron's Return by Suzanna Medeiros

Author:Suzanna Medeiros [Medeiros, Suzanna]
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter 14

You won’t come to regret this.

Those were the first words she’d spoken to him after they were officially husband and wife, and he wasn’t sure he believed them. He wanted to, but a part of him hated the fact that circumstances and their shared past had conspired to force him into this marriage.

But he would do it again to become a part of his daughter’s life.

He was intensely aware of Abigail’s presence in the confines of his carriage. He tried not to think about the kiss they’d shared and how much he wanted to drag her into his lap and get started on the wedding-night celebrations.

She looked like an angel with her blond hair and gold dress, and he wanted nothing more than to debauch her. Ruin her for any other man.

Instead, he held his tongue as the carriage took them to his town house, where a short wedding breakfast would be held. He’d considered omitting the practice altogether since theirs was hardly a typical marriage, but he wanted to see Gemma today. She’d be going home with her governess afterward and would move into his house on the morrow. So if he wanted to spend any time with her today—and he’d made a point to see her every day since their introduction—he needed to invite their wedding guests back to the house.

There were also matters he needed to discuss with Abigail, but that would have to wait. He couldn’t start the conversation on the carriage ride, and they’d no sooner arrived at his home than people began spilling out of their own carriages.

There was his friend John and his wife, of course. He knew that Abigail had grown close to the Marchioness of Lowenbrock in the short time they’d known one another.

Not that long ago, he would have assumed John’s wife was trying to punish him in some way by seeing to it that his life was as uncomfortable as possible. But somehow he’d softened recently because he honestly didn’t think Amelia had it in her to act with such malice.

And that fact worried him. His life was spinning out of control. He was starting to question long-held beliefs that all members of the opposite sex weren’t to be trusted. That they could lead you to think they were deeply in love with you and then turn at the drop of a hat and cast you aside with casual cruelty.

He’d thought that somehow John had managed to find the only honest woman to be had, and given the man’s disposition for rescuing damsels in distress, he counted his friend fortunate not to have fallen into the snare of someone who would manipulate him for her own gain.

But then Ashford had married Mary Trenton. He liked the woman well enough, had found her to be clever and levelheaded. Still, he’d been concerned that his friend was headed for heartbreak of his own when they were courting.

That hadn’t happened. Instead, the two seemed genuinely to care for and, dare he admit it, love one another.

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