Chapter 14

• It was the Duke’s fault, of course. All of this was his fault. If he hadn’t been the man she'd met beside the lake, the man who’d made her lose her temper and nearly slap him. If he hadn’t been that man, then none of this would have been a problem.
• She would have accepted his proposal without if not a second thought, then at least a third thought. But he was that man and so she couldn’t risk it.
• It’s not him that’s the issue. It’s you, she told herself.