Taking the hint, Rhys rose from his seat on the divan and followed him. Bellamy tapped Rhys’s shoulder and jerked his head toward the corner. And I think I deserve to hear it, considering that I’ve spent the past months recovering from blows meant for you.”Ī tense silence saturated the room. “My history has nothing to do with this.” Bellamy.” He set his teacup down with a crack. I’m just full of honest answers to those kinds of questions, Mr. Where did I have my education? At Harrow and Cambridge. What are my parents’ names? Jason and Emmeline Faraday. I want answers.”įaraday’s eyes snapped up. “I’m not going anywhere until you tell us the truth. “You’re a lying bastard,” Bellamy snarled. It’s been lovely, but I really must ask you all to leave.” Miss Dunn, once again your pretty face has improved a very bleak occasion. “Do you know, I believe I’ve had enough society for today. “In a dark, filthy alley, with a whore for company.”įaraday picked up his teacup and stared into it, hard. “So you left him to die alone,” Bellamy choked out. The man had dragged a broken leg and his gold-threaded waistcoat through the gutters of Whitechapel, rather than wait for assistance?įaraday absorbed Rhys’s skeptical look. “No.” Faraday winced as he said the word. “Not to mention”-he eyed the man’s legs-“you walked back to your carriage with a broken hip?” “If your story is truthful, you would have nothing to fear from an inquiry,” Rhys finished. “But if your story is truthful …” Rhys began. That makes no sense.”įaraday gave a defensive shrug. “If all this is true, why didn’t you wait for Cora to return? Go with her to Bellamy’s house? Instead you slunk off and left Leo alone.”īellamy said, “He’s right. As a deep mystery and dangerous smugglers threaten much more than their passionate reckoning, Meredith discovers that she must trust everything to a wager her heart placed long ago.Rhys gave their host a scrutinizing look. But when Rhys returns, battle-scarred, world-weary, and more dangerously attractive than ever, the lovely widow is torn between determination and desire.
Meredith Maddox believes in hard work, not fate, and romance isn't part of her plan. Out of options, Rhys returns to his ancestral home on the moors of Devonshire, expecting anything but a chance at redemption in the arms of a beautiful innkeeper who dares him to take on the demons of his past-and the sweet temptation of a woman's love. His death wish went unanswered on the battlefield, while fate allowed the murder of his good friend in the elite gentlemen's society known as the Stud Club. Luck is a double-edged sword for brooding war hero Rhys St. The daring members of the Stud Club are reckless gamblers and no strangers to risk-until love raises the stakes in Twice Tempted by a Rogue.
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