As long as I don’t have to endure their company for the voyage, I’m quite willing to accept their aid in this endeavor, even if they’re offering it only because their darling niece was used as bait and they want revenge for that.” “You mean you hope for any excuse to do just that.” Georgina tsked at her husband as she sat down next to him. In case I need to leave without your brothers.” James crossed his arms over his wide chest, but he was grinning now. He needs to inform them he has one more voyage to captain before retiring as they had been expecting him to do.” “Your newest captain came by this morning with the message that he would be away for a few days to visit his family. James Malory looked abashed for the briefest moment when he asked, “How the deuce did you find out about that?” So with one brown brow raised, a habit she’d picked up from him, and in a tone nearly as dry as his usually was, she said, “Another ship? Really, James, wasn’t one extra ship enough?” She’d given up scolding them for it.īut now her mind was on her husband and his impending voyage, which she hoped wouldn’t commence before the end of the Season. At fourteen, the boys still hadn’t outgrown running to wherever they were going. The twins, Gilbert and Adam, had just left the room, their empty plates still on the table, and raced past her on the stairs. I N THE LARGE TOWN house on Berkeley Square, Georgina Malory entered the dining room to join her husband for lunch.
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