Married to the Ruthless Duke (MARRIAGE DEALS #1) by Maybel Bardot EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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“Does this even stand legally?” James, the Marquess of Montgomery,
asked as they pored over a contract spread out on Alexander’s
oakwood desk in the study.
Alexander had wondered the same when his father’s man of affairs had
presented it to him the night before, asked the stoic-looking man as much,
and was surprised by the answer.
“It does,” he replied curtly.
The contract in question was one between his late father, the former Duke
of Blackhill, and the Viscount Honeyfield. The contract allowed him to
marry any one of the Viscount’s daughters with no clear benefits or reasons
stated. Another reason he thought the document a joke.
“That’s rather…”
“Ridiculous. I know,” he finished for his friend.
He had pretty much had the same response last night, but he had had a
couple of hours to think on it since and realized it actually did save him a
lot of trouble he had envisaged having in achieving his current goals.
“But I’ve given it a lot of thought between last night and this meeting, and I
see that it does save me a lot of time and the tedious process of courting to
find a suitable wife,” he continued. “The Viscount Honeyfield is a man of
honorable standing, and if my father, bastard that he was, God rest his soul,
had thought him worthy of such a contract, then I will definitely honor it.”
“I still don’t understand why you’d honor the contract though, when there’s
no consequence if you choose not to,” James argued. “Besides, you know
nothing about his daughters. For all we know, they could be of questionable
character or shunned by society. You can have any girl you choose, so why
would you marry someone you do not know?”
Resisting the urge to roll his eyes, Alexander sighed, folding his arms. “You
seem to forget about my reputation with the fairer sex.”
“You’re being dramatic, my friend,” James scolded. “You’re the ton’s most
eligible bachelor of all time.”
“Remember the Turninton Ball? The Earl of Washam’s daughter fainted
after I greeted her.” Alexander reminded his friend. “I’ve literally been
dubbed the Ruthless Duke. If that doesn’t further buttress my point, I don’t
know what else will.”
It had been truly an embarrassing moment for him, but he had learned to
live with their odd fear of him, especially since he discovered the moniker
he had been given. It was annoying all the more because he’d been
completely innocent of their accusations. He hadn’t kicked his stepfamily
out when his father had died; they’d left him alone.
He was a shrewd businessman as anyone else would be when they had a lot
of money. All other claims of his ruthlessness had been made by people
who had a whole lot more to lose if he decided to out them for playing
major roles in his family’s attempts to trap him in scandal.
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