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Authors: Lecia Cornwall
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“I can’t wait to get you alone,” he said, then paused. “We need to talk.”
“I think we’ve done enough talking. I know, Nicholas, I’ve seen with my own eyes what kind of man you are.” Her face flushed. “And besides, we won’t be entirely alone.”
He rolled his eyes. “Don’t tell me your mother came with you.”
“She’s in London.” She tilted her head and laid a hand on her belly.
He stared at her. “A child? You came here knowing you were going to have a child?” he demanded as his stomach turned to water. “Our child?” He stared at her flat belly, felt love well up, and swallowed hard. “God, Maggie!”
She smiled down at him. “Can we argue about it later?”
“Don’t think we won’t, Duchess.”
“From now on, I will do exactly as you wish, my love,” she said.
“I don’t believe that for a minute, Maggie.”
She gave him a devil’s grin of her own, and he laughed out loud.
He mounted the horse behind her, cradled her in his lap, felt her cheek against his chest, and took the first step on the long road back to the city.
Private Collins marched beside them, and others, the lucky ones, straggled off the battlefield and joined their slow march.
The devil had been paid in full, and it was time to go home.
L
ECIA
C
ORNWALL
lives and writes in Calgary, Canada, amid the beautiful foothills of the Canadian Rockies, with four cats, two teenagers, a crazy chocolate Lab, and one very patient husband. She is hard at work on her next book. Come visit Lecia at www.leciacornwall.com.
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HOW TO DECEIVE A DUKE
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EPub Edition DECEMBER 2012 ISBN: 9780062202437
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