A Wretched Rake (LORDS OF TEMPTATION #14) by Tammy Andresen EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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Today, on this day, the twenty-fifth of June, in the year of our lord, 1838,
Lady Isabelle Fairchild had married one Mister Rory Makem. Twenty years
her senior, her new husband had little to recommend him personally or in any
other regard.
Balding, missing teeth, mean as a snake, a man of questionable morals,
and having made his money in tawdry affairs, he was the last man Isabelle
had expected to sit next to at her wedding breakfast.
He hardly looked her way, instead taking a large slurp of his wine, the
sparkling red her mother preferred and always kept stocked in the house. It
was her husband’s third, if she wasn’t mistaken, which left Isabelle free to
study him. Her mouth turned down in a decided frown. Try as she might to
find something appealing in her new husband, there seemed nothing
appealing about this man.
Her gaze shifted to her parents, the only other two people in the room
drinking as heavily as the groom, her mother’s glassy eyes and dazed smile
evident as she raised her glass to toast the air again.
Her father slouched in his chair, his dark expression only growing darker
with each sip he swallowed. Did he dislike this match? He couldn’t hate it
worse than Isabelle. Not that she’d protested the marriage. It was as
necessary as breathing air.
A reminder that Makem did have one recommendable attribute. Money.
Lots of it. And he’d paid her family handsomely for the privilege of marrying
an earl’s daughter.
She tried not to sigh as she looked at her two younger sisters. They
needed dowries and a future that did not include whoremongering, gaming
hell running, odious husbands. So she’d done her duty and married the lout
next to her for their benefit and their benefit alone. But in her heart, Makem
repulsed her.
On the rare occasion she’d found herself alone with him, he’d pawed at
her body, her skin crawling as she’d tried to hold still to suffer his advances.
Still, she couldn’t find it in her heart to really hate her parents. They were
desperate, even if their problems were, at least in part, their own making. And
her father understood Isabelle’s nature. Practical and loyal, she’d always been
the most likely to sacrifice herself for the good of the family. However, this
sacrifice was pushing her to the edge of reason.
She gave her new husband a side glance…. Maybe he’d drink enough
wine that he’d fall asleep before it was time for bed. She ought to offer him
another glass.
He had almost no family at the breakfast, just a few men who were as
troubling in appearance as her groom.
On her side, several of her family members had declined the invitation,
not wanting the stench of a criminal tainting their good names by attending
this farce of a marriage.
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