Her Duke of Seduction by Scarlett Osborne EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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“What is happening?” Violet cried desperately as the collectors
seemed to tear through the house like a hurricane. “Paul, I do not
understand. You need to be honest with me.”
Could her brother not see the tears in her eyes? Did he not care about the
utterly dreadful impact that he was having on her? Violet was starting to
worry that she was never going to be able to get through to her brother, just
as she had never been able to make her father understand the damage that
his gambling addiction had on the family, and on her.
“That was Mother’s!” Violet cried as the men carried out a vase that had
always held red roses. A symbol to the mother she had lost at three years of
age. “They cannot take that. Paul, you must stop them.”
But Paul said nothing. He simply rolled his eyes. “Oh come on, I do not
think our parents need any of those things anymore. Our parents have
passed away. They will not miss a thing.”
Violet gasped in horror at his heartlessness. “That does not make it right,
Paul. You cannot say such things. You have not been here for years, you
have been gallivanting abroad, leaving me to care for Father. You returning
to London was supposed to be a good thing. I thought I would get help, but
look…” She made a sweeping gesture with her hands. “You have made
everything so much worse. Your gambling habit is worse than Father’s
was.”
Paul had inherited a lot, including debts, but he clearly did not have a clue
how bad things truly were. Their father must have been lying to him about
how bad things had become.
But now Paul was lying to himself and it was making Violet’s life even
messier.
“It is under control,” Paul half whispered, using the mantra that he seemed
to live by these days, even if it was not the truth. “I have it under control.”
The fact that he had no color in his cheeks and he was not fighting as the
last of the family valuables were taken away told Violet everything she
needed to know.
Not only did he not have a single thing under control, he had no idea what
was going to happen next. Everything that they had left was at risk, and
there was not a damn thing that Violet could do about it. Even as her
favorite painting was taken away, and the vase collection that belonged to
her mother, which she had always treasured, vanished in front of her very
eyes.
“Look, Paul,” Violet demanded, trying one last time to make him
understand. “Please, see what is happening. Dad’s antique furniture is being
taken. Even he never managed to lose that. You must hear me out when I try
to discuss the family finances with you.”
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