The Heiress Effect (Brothers Sinister, #2)

by Courtney Milan

“Is it a thorny question of ethics? Or is it the sort of ethical question where the right choice is easy, but the unethical answer is too tempting?”

Ethics

He’d been lying to himself all these months. He was in love with her. And he had no idea what to do about it.

In love

It wasn’t that he was ashamed of her. He just…didn’t want anyone to know of their affair. That was all.

Yeah, right!

Her chin rose. “It’s just as well you don’t want an awful wife,” she told him, “because I had hoped for a husband with a little courage.”

Courage

She wouldn’t take on another role, least of all because a man who claimed to love her asked her to do it.

Claimed Love

Freddy had insisted to Free that she needed to stay inside, to wear her bonnets. And Oliver had been saying the same thing. He had looked at his sister, at her face shining as she was surrounded by a hundred women in Hyde Park, and instead of feeling proud of her accomplishment or happy for what had happened, he had felt tired. He’d tried to warn her off Cambridge.

Free

How was it that he was telling the woman that he loved that she was nothing? That she was awful? He’d started caring more about becoming the kind of person who could make a change than he cared about the change itself.

Change