Devona had remembered just in time that she was thinking of her real father and not the ghastly man who had made her life a misery.
‘I must be careful, very careful,’ she said to herself. ‘Otherwise, because I am so excited by what is happening, the Earl might be suspicious.’
She was suddenly terrified.
If he ever found out the truth that she had lied and deceived him, he might take her money from her and throw her out.
Not only from the house, but from his life.
He was at the moment the only friend she had and the only person she could talk to.
The only person who was protecting her from the world she knew nothing about and was afraid of.
Quickly, because the Earl was looking at her and waiting for her to finish what she was saying, she said,
“Tonight of all nights we must talk of
