Saving her Marriage to the Duke by Ava MacAdams EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
- Author: Ava MacAdams
- Language: English
- Formats: PDF / EPUB
- Status: Available For Free Download
- Genre: Victorian Historical Romance
- Price: Free
- File Size: 2 MB
- Publish Date: April 2, 2023
Gloria Garter, the Dowager Duchess of Lancaster, whacked her
grandson’s valet soundly in the leg with her cane, startling him awake.
“Get up, you fool, and open this door immediately!” she demanded, looking
at the servant with hate-filled eyes.
“Apologies, Your Grace,” Simon replied, scrambling from his seated position
to open the double doors to her grandson’s study.
“Worthless,” she muttered impatiently, banging her cane against the floor
loudly.
In the study that was once his grandfather’s, Evan Garter, the Duke of
Lancaster, was startled by her brash entrance. She barged through the double
oak doors into the dark-blue painted room, casting light into the naturally
dark corners, over the arrangement of heavy furniture and hunt-related
paintings. He hadn’t changed anything since he’d taken over the family
affairs though every day he wondered if he should. Traces of his grandfather
were everywhere, reminding him of the past.
Evan looked once more at the small, brown, leather buckle shoes and quickly
hid them in a drawer of his desk. His blue eyes barely got a chance to focus
before his grandmother’s shrill, condescending voice filled the air.
Immediately, an ache bloomed beneath his left temple. He rubbed it and
squinted in annoyance.
“Blessed evening, Grandmother,” he replied dryly as she slapped a
newspaper in front of him.
“Blessed evening my foot, grandson!” she spat back, pointing a thin, gnarled
finger at the print.
“Look at this! Your wife is making a fool of our family name and legacy with
her hedonistic ways again. I will not stand for it, Evan! You must gain
control of her at once!”
Evan sighed heavily as he reached for his decanter of whiskey and poured
himself a refill. This was not what he wanted to be bothered with at the
moment. He wanted to be left alone with his pain. With his misery. With the
ghosts of his departed family. Of course, it did not matter what he wanted.
Not when duty called.
“What is it exactly that I am supposed to be looking at, grandmother?” he
asked, looking into her steely eyes as he took a healthy swallow of liquor. A
fresh wave of burning numbness washed over him, and he felt the modicum
of care he had started to feel slip away. Ah. That was better.
“Your wife, Evan,” she bit out, leaning down once more to poke at the
newspaper. “She is taking lovers outside of your marriage, and she is
throwing all caution to the wind by not caring who it is that sees her commit
such dalliance!”
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