Chapter 18

He also wanted to discuss it with her, suggesting she join him in the city at her earliest convenience. She didn’t particularly want to discuss it with him, since she didn’t much care about the wedding itself, but, as refusing to go just because she found his presence threatening would be admitting far too much, and her father now had a full-time caregiver, she felt she had no choice but to agree.

And so a few days later she found herself on a helicopter, a building nervousness along with a strange sense of anticipation collecting inside of her. She tried to ignore both sensations by watching the unrolling green of the countryside below her and attempting to enjoy the novelty of flying, since she’d never been in any kind of aircraft before, let alone a helicopter.

But all too soon they were approaching the city and once again she was faced with the reality of having to be in the Duke’s disturbing, compelling and dangerous presence. The thought made her heart beat fast an