The Rake's Desire by Roxie Brandon

Author:Roxie Brandon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance novels, romances, romance books, regency novels, romance ebooks, regency rake, romance 1800s, regency 1800s, regency duke, regency dukes
Publisher: Roxie Brandon

Chapter Six

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The ride to town was pleasant on such a beautiful day. There was a constant breeze moving the air around her.

She stopped outside a large building with several broken window panes. The disrepair of the building made her heart ache. How could it be that Emma was in there? How could it be that she’d allowed for that to happen?

She looked at each window. She knew that there wasn’t a real chance of seeing Emma. The deep, cold aching in her heart was crushing her.

She tried to focus on the wedding. It wasn’t enough to quell the storm inside of her. It could never and would never be enough. She had allowed Emma to end up there. She had allowed things to spiral so out of control that she’d lost control. “Who is in there?” she jumped again, as Anthony crept up on her.

“What are you doing here?” she demanded. “Did you follow me? You have no right to follow me,” she told him.

“You didn’t answer my question,” Anthony said.

“I have no need to answer your question,” she told him stiffly.

“I could go over and ask,” he shrugged. “I imagine that with my status that it would be no imposition on them.”

“You will do no such thing,” Regina stepped in front of him. “You leave alone what you do not know,” she warned him. “It must be someone important,” Anthony’s eyes narrowed. “Is it a parent? Is this a mad house? I bet that’s it. You’re hiding away a looney parent aren’t you?”

“You may believe what you want,” Regina told him. “I will not share my secret with you.”

“I worry about what my father holds over you,” Anthony said.

“What makes you believe he holds something over me?” Regina asked him.

“Why else would you marry him?” Anthony asked her. “Would you have me believe that you love him?”

“I would have you believe that this isn’t your concern,” Regina told him sternly.

“Do you truly believe that?” Anthony peered at her. “Do you truly believe that you are not special to me?”

Regina stepped away from him.

“I do not know what you are trying to say, but insist upon you leaving this subject.”

“I shall do no such thing,” Anthony told her quickly. “You cannot deny what happened between us. You cannot deny that you want it again. Just like I cannot deny that watching you marry my father would be a great torture to me. Do you wish me to go through that?”

“This cannot be about you,” Regina wouldn’t look at him. She couldn’t. She knew that all he was saying was true, but that the truth could not matter, when it came to her decision.

“Who is this about?” Anthony asked. “Who is my father helping for you? Why won’t you tell me?”

Regina finally turned to look at him. She had to. “My daughter,” she told him fearlessly.

She knew what the truth meant. She knew that he would never look at her in the same way again but, that was what had to happen.

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