SHE CAME TO RETURN HIS RING—THE COLD DUKE LOCKED THE DOOR AND SAID SHE WOULD HEAR HIM OUT FIRST
SHE CAME TO RETURN HIS RING—THE COLD DUKE LOCKED THE DOOR AND SAID SHE WOULD HEAR HIM OUT FIRST Marianne Holloway walks up the drive to Fenwick Abbey on foot, a ring wrapped in linen in her pocket and every word of her goodbye rehearsed. For fourteen months she has kept the cold Duke's correspondence and worn his grandmother's emerald on a ribbon under her dress, betrothed to him by a lawyer's clause and nothing warmer. Now she has found letters in his hand that seem to prove he let her father, the estate's loyal old steward, take the blame for a fraud. She is certain the man she agreed to marry is a thief, and she has come to end it. What she does not expect is to be told he is already waiting. The Duke has been warned she is leaving, and the moment she steps inside, he locks the study door and asks for one quarter of an hour. Behind that locked door, everything that was hidden from her begins to come apart, and the signature she trusted turns out to be the one thing in the house that was lying. She walks out without the ring, but not for the reason she came.
The Duke Returned to End Their Engagement — But She Was Already Letting Him Go
The Duke Laughed When Her Name Was Suggested as a Match — His Laughter Stopped When She Walked In
"I'd Rather Lose Everything Than Marry Her," the Duke Told His Butler — He Proposed by Friday.
The Duke Made His New Wife Eat Alone for a Month to Break Her - On The Thirty-First Night…
The Ruthless Duke Ignored the Wallflower Until She Defended His Little Sister at the Ball
The Duchess Wore No Jewels to the Gala—Everyone Stared Anyway
He Married Me for an Heir — Then Fell in Love
"You're Standing in My Roses," the Duke Said — She Laughed and Refused to Move
They Ripped Her Dress at the Bride Selection, But the Duke Saw Everything
He Publicly Called Her a Country Mouse — Now She’s the Only Woman He Can’t Live Without
The Alpha King Humiliated His Luna Until She Chose to Leave His Empire Forever
The Duke Found a Lost Portrait in the Snow — He Crossed Three Counties to Find Her Face
Her Stepbrother Introduced Her as the Housemaid to the Duke's Face — She Did Not Correct Him
She Released Him Without a Single Tear… Now He’d Burn His Title to Hold Her Again
Duke Fakes Coma to Test Duchess—But The Maid Does Something Shocking
The Duke Had Declined Four Introductions — Then He Saw Her Correcting a Bookplate by the Window
"Make Yourself Invisible Tonight", the Duke Warned — But When She Walked In the Room Went Silent
“You Were Never My Choice,” the Duke Said — She Curtsied and Walked Away
The Duke Dared Her to Ride the Stallion That Threw Him — She Cleared It and the Duke Lost His Heart
