He cleared his throat, because he had the feeling she wouldn’t approve of her romantic ambitions making him homicidal. “My husband will love me enough not to care,” Diana said, her eyes shining with faith.Įverything in North chilled at the idea of Diana being loved by another man. Who would have guessed that his melancholy fiancée could have such a naughty grin? “Whoever marries me will already know that I jilted a ravishing future duke,” she said firmly, and then, with a twinkle, “You can take ‘ravishing’ in two ways.” What happened to the men in his regiment. Never mind the fact that he had every intention of being the man she chose. Won’t the man you choose expect you to come to him without knowledge of men?” But what might be regretted by you is this evening, Diana. Her eyes filled with remorse, but he shook his head.
“I know you don’t love me,” he said, keeping his voice even.
“I don’t want to hurt your feelings, but I am relishing my freedom.” He wants Diana, and he’ll risk everything to call her his own.She giggled, and her arms wound around his neck. Yet North is returning a hardened warrior-and this is one battle he’s determined to win.
When North makes it clear that he still wants her for his own, scandal or no, Diana has to fight to keep from losing her heart to the man whom she still has no intention of marrying. Now everyone has drawn the worst conclusions about the child’s father, and Diana is left with bittersweet regret. He returns from war to find that he’s notorious: polite society has ruled him “too wild to wed.”ĭiana never meant to tarnish North’s reputation, or his heart, but in her rush to save a helpless child, there was no time to consider the consequences of working as a governess in Lindow Castle. The handsome, rakish heir to a dukedom, Lord Roland Northbridge Wilde-known to his friends as North-left England two years ago, after being jilted by Miss Diana Belgrave. No one is more surprised than Lord North when he returns from war to find his ex-fiancee in his ancestral home.working as a governess in a sexy, fiery new Wildes of Lindow Castle romance by New York Times bestselling author Eloisa James.
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