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August 3 - August 4, 2023
“I’ll admit to the first but know nothing about the second.” He knew. His shuffling feet told her so. “Of course you’ll admit to the first!” Vee snarled in his face, the sprig of leaves caught in the hinge of her spectacles ruining the menacing effect she was aiming for. “Because I caught you red-handed, you snake!” She jabbed his chest hard and Galahad’s eyes narrowed, but other than that he did not move a muscle in retaliation.
He shook his head. “I am not the man of her dreams, Vee. In my position, I cannot be the man of any woman’s dreams. My situation likely makes me more the stuff of nightmares and I wouldn’t saddle my current burdens on my worst enemy.”
While Giles thanked the vicar for his time and his recollections, Diana stared at the damning record once more. A record that confirmed not only Giles’s parentage but also his father’s blatant infidelity. Or perhaps even bigamy if the vicar’s assumptions and the register were correct and Gerald Sinclair had purposefully taken the abbreviated spelling of his ancestral name to marry another wife while his duchess still lived.
Dumbass. If he married your stepmother *after* he'd been to Wales and met your mother, there's a very good chance it was his *second* and therefore the bigamous one, no matter what society believed
“And I suspect there is the slimmest chance His Grace might well be legitimate after all.”
No shit you complete and utter idiots. Honestly, how does Diana make a living as an investigative journalist with such crap critical thinking skills? Also, the evil uncle is totally behind the opium smuggling.
“Did you all enjoy your excursion, Your Grace?” Mr. Regis’s smile was tight at the sight of them arm in arm, then grew tighter still at everyone else spilling out of the carriages and headed their way. “Where is my daughter?”