Surrendering the Past (The Granville Legacy Series Book 1) by Pamela Lynne EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
- Authors: Pamela Lynne
- Language: English
- Genre: Historical Regency Fiction
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The howl of the wind reached his ears just before the chill settled over him,
taking his breath as he attempted to inhale. A curse sounded from his lips,
but there was no one near to be offended by the utterance. London was
bloody frozen, and only those with some important mission, or no sense at
all, would be walking the streets dominated by the frigid, unyielding wind.
Captain Richard Granville knew he belonged to the latter, though he told
himself it was necessary to heed the summons that brought him out this
night. His father rarely made demands of him, and Richard was even more
rarely inclined to accept them, but two years had passed since he had seen
any of his family, and Richard’s presence in London was overdue.
There was something more that drew him to accept his father’s demand
to attend this dinner, but he could not name what it was. Duty, he supposed,
could be the reason, or even curiosity. Perhaps it was even the remnants of
affection that remained for his elder brother, Wesley, the golden-haired heir
who could do no wrong in their father’s eyes.
That was about as likely as
Richard feeling any duty to obey his father’s demands. The real reason he
allowed himself out on a night like this was simple: it gave him the
opportunity to get under his father’s skin, to show him he had survived
without any acknowledgement or help from the great Earl of Litchfield.
His last encounter with the earl had been on a day as cold as this one,
though the violence of the wind did not compare to the shouts and threats
Richard had leveled on his father.
It had been the day of his mother’s
funeral, and Richard wanted to inflict the same aching that he was feeling
onto Litchfield, if the man could indeed feel anything at all. Richard
watched him play the part of grieving husband until he could no longer
tolerate the lie and determined that Litchfield would feel some kind of pain
before the day was through. Unfortunately, Wesley intervened before he
could land a blow, asking Richard to wait for him in his chambers until the
guests had gone.
Richard refused and chose instead to ride wildly out into
the night, away from his childhood home and all the memories and hurt that
bled from it. He left behind the reputation of a violent wildling—the
ungrateful second son of a loving father. Richard cared nothing for the
whispers of the ton or for their censure. He only wished the world knew the
truth about his father. But wealth and lineage carried far more weight in
society than did the truth, and the shadows of the past only haunted those
who still valued grace and honor.
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