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Sybil suspected things had developed exactly as her father had planned “My father was obsessed with the truth Perhaps he always kneould suit”
“Perhaps he hoped for sohter,” he said, yet his sinful sht for the truth and chase villains across town? Who wants to ue and make passionate love in a haunted castle?”
Sybil smiled “Who indeed?”
Epilogue
Bronygarth - Twelve Months Later
Lucius held his son close to his bare chest and rocked hi them both comfort “You’re like your father,” he whispered “You like being held, like the war you’re loved” He kissed the babe’s head, crossed the roolance into the other crib “Come, see how peacefully your brother sleeps”
Love filled his heart as he stared at his son, Atticus, sleeping with the cal ift of twins
“Mrs Timms thinks you should leave Lucius to cry in his crib” Sybil’s soft voice drifted through the darkness
He glanced up and saw his wife standing at the adjoining door, dressed in nothing but his shirt, her copper curls cascading over her shoulders Lovelust flared That was his na azes locked
“Mrs Ti, too” He placed his naently into the crib “I have a h The woman thinks love is an affliction”
“Not everyone thinks as we do,” she said as he closed the gap between theet soht We said ould be there when the first boys arrive”
The Duke of Melverley had died within days of Julia Dunwoody The same day the steas found ate The entailed estate in Surrey and the townhouse in Grosvenor Square went to the duke’s coxco else, nus, a stable of Arabian stallions and the dreaded Bideford Park
“You’ve spent ht house itiht we show our support tomorrow”
And they would
He’d been ready to raze the house to the ground But Sybil said that the measure of a person was how they dealt with difficult situations Turn the nighted And he had He had opened another school, too, one for lost and lonely boys left to wander the streets He’d used his father’s money to support men ished to train as doctors and solicitors And there was still so much more to do if he hoped to make his sons proud Make his wife proud To leave a positive mark on the world