The Traitor's Club: Hugh by Laura Landon

Author:Laura Landon [Landon, Laura]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Kindle Press
Published: 2017-09-12T04:00:00+00:00

Hugh sat in one of the oversized leather chairs in the Red Oaks library. He held a snifter of brandy and stared at the flickering fames in the fireplace. It was late. Not overly late, but late enough that his wife surely had plenty of time to go to her room and prepare for bed.

He didn’t want to rush her. He didn’t want to go to her before she was ready. Yet a part of him wondered if she would ever be ready.

He thought back over the words she’d spoken in the carriage. “You have given me far more than I asked for. It’s possible that I might even have the children I dreamed of having. But that is where our agreement begins . . . and ends.”

Hugh realized he should be relieved that she felt this way. He had never wanted a wife. He’d never thought to settle down to domesticity. That was something other members of Society were prone to do . . . but not him. He had no desire to be a husband, or a father, or go through life with a woman at his side. He was perfectly content living the unencumbered lifestyle he’d been living in London. If he’d wanted to marry, the woman he married would be nothing like Nellie. She would not have been a strong, independent woman who considered herself the caretaker of everyone in her little world. He would not have married someone who held him to the high standards Nellie would obviously expect from her husband. He would not have chosen a woman who loved unconditionally and expected the same from him.

No, he would not have chosen anyone like her. Thank heavens she’d made it clear she expected nothing from him.

She’d made that clear when she said, “Once you leave for London, you must never give me another thought. Just as I will not think of you again either.”

She’d absolved him of any responsibility. That’s exactly what he wanted. That’s what they’d agreed to.

He should be grateful to her for her foresight. And he was. She had freed him from any obligation.

Hugh finished the brandy and rose. He attempted to put a smile on his face. Everything was exactly how he wanted it to be. She’d proven how impossible it would have been for either of them to expect more of their marriage when she said, “I cannot be what you want in a wife. And you cannot be what I desire in a husband. I cannot be content in the City. And you cannot be content in the country.”

Yes, everything was exactly how he wanted it to be.

He left the library and walked briskly up the stairs to his wife’s room. He would bed her for the next two weeks and pray that when he left she was with child.

Hugh knocked softly, then opened the door when she bid him to enter. Then he stopped.

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