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Оглавление“Was it easy to forget our marriage? Did you go as willingly to Thornson’s bed as you did mine?”
“Do not be crude. What choice did I have?”
“You could have said no. We’d exchanged vows.”
Marguerite had expected this. But the deadly tone of his voice brought a breathless gasp out of her lips. “I spoke but a promise to you. Not all promises can be kept.”
“It was much more than a simple promise.” Darius stepped towards her. “It was a vow made to me, before God, before witnesses. A vow to be my wife.”
She pushed him away. “Do not do this, Darius. We were impetuous children who acted on a whim. Nobody, not the King nor the Church, would hold us to those vows.”
“Children? Impetuous children?” He grasped her arms. “Did you love Thornson?”
She nodded, then thought to turn the tables. “What about you? Do you not care for your wife?”
“I cared a great deal for my wife. To my misfortune she cared not enough.”
Marguerite was stunned to realise he talked about her…
