Chapter 5

He no longer smiled, and even looked rather gloomy. In addition to the loss of his brother and the important responsibility that now fell to him, as Viscount, he had just learned some very bad news.

“Thank you, I would gladly take some, I think.”

"What politeness and civility," she mused. At least on the surface.

Because deep down, she would have liked to be able to scream and burst into tears.

Ivan was dead, her baby had no father, and she couldn't even go home.

Could this man help her, or would his kindness stop at a cup of tea and a few cookies?

“Is that... Are you married?” She worried If ever Lady Hadleigh...

“No, I'm not married.”

Eden’s hope of finding some female sympathy in this mansion vanished suddenly, she missed her sisters so much that she still had tears in her eyes.

Her question seemed to amuse the viscount. Perhaps he too was a damned libertine, like his brother.

The young omega was now warned against these kinds