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Their relationship was tempestuous at best, nuclear war at worst.
“My grandparents own Glenroch Castle.”
“Your grandparents are the Duke and Duchess of Glenroch?”
I’d spent the last ten years of my life distancing myself
from the upper-class world I was raised in.
Does he have any idea who your dad is?????
He doesn’t even know my surname. I want to keep it that way.
How do you know your dad and Carmen aren’t going???
This is the kind of thing they’d get invited to.
could swear I knew her. It was like an itch, a little bug I couldn’t quite squash.
In all honesty, Will, I’m avoiding your sister like the plague,” Mum continued.
I don’t, one of us isn’t making it to her wedding.”
Well, I didn’t know her, per se, but I recognised her.
Like she’d been in my life at some point for a relevant period of time, but I didn’t know how.
“The broad answer is British royals and noble classes and slavery,” I replied.
“The narrow answer is the how British upper classes affected the slave trade
their relevance to British society since the United Kingdom abolished it.”
“Are you on Tinder?” “Yes. It’s a good reminder of who not to date.” I paused, drawing my brows together slightly.
“You look just like your mother, you know.”
“Your mother. You look exactly like her. I’m surprised I didn’t see it immediately.”
around myself like it would protect me. “I greatly regret not seeing your mum before she passed away. I was terribly sorry to hear of her death,” she continued.
“Harriet was one of the only people who understood what it meant to marry someone with a title.
“She was my closest friend for a long time, and I can’t believe it took me so long to recognise you.
you looked a bit too upset for someone who didn’t know Eric.
didn’t mean to lie to anyone.”
avoid these circles as much as I possibly can, and I had no idea who William was when we met.”
I should warn you that your grandmother and your father’s family are invited to the wedding this weekend.”
Wait, did you say my grandmother was on her way? As in Olive? Mum’s mum? Granny?”
I dropped onto a stool. “I am in so much trouble.”
If not of anything real, just of pure embarrassment when I had to tell William who my family was.
When I say I don’t do the aristocracy, I mean it. I avoid it at all costs.
not so crazy to ignore a largely patriarchal class when you were tossed aside for your younger sibling
understood her reluctance to be involved in anything that resembled her father’s life—
title had brought Grace nothing but pain and heartbreak.
Don’t tell me you believe it was all meant to be or something like that.”
“There are a lot of things linking us together, if you think about it. Our paths would have probably crossed sooner or later.”
AMBER: Boohoo, you’re stuck in a castle with a hot, multimillionaire duke who wants to kiss you. Excuse me if I don’t feel sorry for you.
She said he was the man she loved, and even though death had parted their physical bodies,
she’d promised him her heart, and he still had it, therefore they weren’t parted.”
I would move Heaven and Earth to keep Grace in my life.
