Chapter 18. Predators in Armani

Nicholas

The last time he had attended such an event, he was fresh out of Cambridge at twenty-one. He was deployed to a military training camp the next day. His first tour in Afghanistan came six months later. His life had drastically changed by then.

He was not expecting his mother tonight nor his sisters, though he wished they were attending to take Sinclair under their wings. Just as well, he was here and he would not be leaving her side. He glanced down at the beauty tucked to him. He couldn't believe he was this lucky. Love and passion. All his.

His actions, showing his affection for Sinclair was unconventional in his world; like he gave a fuck. This was the main reason he would never fall for arranged marriages amongst the nobility. He wanted the real thing and he found it with his sweetheart.

Climbing the stairs of Lady Morgan's beach mansion, his lips lifted imagining the baroness's surprise when she finds out he was no longer in the market. Well and