Seducing the Duchess (DISGRACEFUL DUCHESSES #1) by Sara Bennett EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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1818: Ten years later
Catherine turned over in bed and stared at the window. The snow was
still coming down, just as it had been yesterday, when they had found
shelter at the White Rose Inn. She had been returning from a visit to
London to see her mother and sisters and should be home by now at
Winstanton Castle. Instead, she was a prisoner of the weather, and her
feelings about that were ambivalent.
On the one hand, she was longing to see her son, Jack, who was five
years old. He was waiting for her at the castle and there was no one in the
world she loved more than Jack. On the other hand, the weather had given
her a brief reprieve from a life she had grown to hate. Winstanton had been
her home for the past ten years, but it had never really felt like her home,
and being away for even a brief time had reminded her just how true that
was.
The Winstanton Estate was mostly moor and crags, the castle a grim
piece of architecture from the 1600s. Built to keep the Scots out and the
family in, as her late husband, the Duke of Winstanton, used to say. She had
hated it from the moment she’d set eyes on it. And even now that she was
the Dowager Duchess of Winstanton she could never leave that depressing
place, because her late husband had written a specific clause into his will
stating that if she did leave to make a happier life elsewhere, then she could
not take Jack, his only heir, with her.
My estate and monies go to my son, Alfred Algernon Jonathon, in the
guardianship of my sister Ellinor. He will live at Winstanton until he turns
twenty-one, when he will assume control of said estate and monies. My
wife, Catherine, may remain at Winstanton with my son, but only if she
continues in a single state. If she remarries, then she must leave.
Furthermore, if she makes her home away from Winstanton, she can neither
take my son with her nor can he visit her. In short, Catherine cannot remove
my son from Winstanton. If she ignores my wishes, then my son will no
longer inherit my estate and monies, which will be given over to the British
Museum.
It had been a terrible shock when Catherine was informed of the late
duke’s stipulations regarding her future. The marriage had not been a happy
one, but she had tried to be a good wife to him. She’d helped Ellinor run his
household and had seen to his care as he’d grown more feeble. Had that
counted for nothing? He still could not let go of her, keeping her his
prisoner even after death.
Ellinor had not been surprised. The duke’s sister had lived her whole
life at Winstanton, so she expected the same of Jack and Catherine. She was
some twenty years younger than her brother, and a quiet mouse of a woman,
intent upon obeying her dead brother’s wishes to the letter. Catherine would
get no support from her if she tried to rebel against the will.
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