Abigail frowned. “That is not similar to a courtship at all. You merely wish to use me for your own amusement when it suits you. And when the summer concludes, you will discard me when you return to London. As you did with Lady Catherine, before you came here to Weymouth.” James’s jaw clenched and he shook his head. “You do not know that woman in the least, and yet you take her word as the truth over mine.” “I saw the pain and rejection in her eyes. I saw the self-loathing and heartache that comes with being thrown to the side by someone who had promised them the world. I have lived those
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