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“I am sorry for any inconvenience I have caused you in coming here, but I promise you my scheming days have ended.”

Peter drew in a breath, hesitant to acknowledge her former feelings.

“It’s over and done with now,” he said. “I have made my position clear. If you will accept it, then we will speak no more of it.”

Accept that he never wanted a family, that he didn’t want her? Trudy would be lying to herself to say his rejection didn’t still sting, but yes, she had accepted it. “Very well,” she said.

He offered her a curt nod. With no further business, Trudy turned and left.

Give her marks for candor, Peter thought as he watched her walk away. And for grit. She was fast becoming his right-hand man—or woman, rather. She was definitely staff material—efficient, freethinking... But it comes at a price. He stopped that thought, reminding himself then that the matter had been settled.

Still, his thoughts betrayed him. In another time, in another place...