The Regency Season Collection: Part Two. Кэрол Мортимер

terrible. Not lying exactly, just a bending of the truth. She never kept the bastard’s surname because...’ He tailed off.

      ‘Because he was a bully. Because she was glad he was dead.’ Daniel finished the thought for him.

      Amethyst with her knife in hand and the ability to use it well. Had she learnt because she had had to? Because she’d had a husband who had taken his anger out on her?

      His eyes went to the clock. Too late to try and find out the truth tonight. Yet would she want him to confront her with it tomorrow? His wife was proud, independent and capable and her marriage to Gerald Whitely must be something she would have liked to have forgotten about altogether. He needed her to tell him of it, on her own terms and in her own time.

      As a confidant, not an interrogator.

      If he picked his moment and had patience she would come to understand that she could trust him.

      Finishing his drink, Daniel poured himself another and indicated to Lucien to join him.