Lord James and His Bride (The Duke's Brothers, #1)

by Fiona Miers

James reached out his hand as well and their fingers touched lightly. “It was never my intention to hurt you, Abigail. I was afraid of my own feelings. It was only when Thomas shouted at me that I realised I had been afraid. I loved you from the moment I saw you in the water, after rescuing your mother. After that day I have never been the same, and it is all thanks to you. When I returned from the war, I tried to fall back into my old ways. I dismissed you for being worried when Catherine approached you. I lied about my past with her and pretended I didn’t know her. That lie bothered me, and it still does. She is part of my past, a past I am not proud of. But if you asked me to list all the women I have ever been with, I would. There is nothing I wish to hide from you.” She shook her head. “There is no need for that, James. I trust that you will not keep anything from me now. You have a past, as do I. A past we are not particularly proud of, but if it were not for that past, we would not be the people we are today, and we would not have ended up on this beach together right at this moment. Life works in mysterious ways, and we could spend a lifetime trying to find a way to understand it.”

What did i just read. he was LYING???????? Dump him omg