Chapter 20…Michael will do what he wishes. He always does.
…from the Countess of Kilmartin to Helen Stirling, three days after the receipt of Helen’s missive.
The days that followed brought Francesca no peace. When she thought about it rationally—or at least as rationally as she was able—it seemed as if she should have found some answers, should have sensed some sort of logic in the air, something that might tell her what to do, how to act, what sort of choice she needed to make.
But, no. Nothing.
She’d made love to him twice. Twice.
To Michael.
That alone should have dictated her decisions, convinced her to accept his proposal. It should have been clear. She had lain with him. She might be pregnant, although that did seem a remote possibility, given that it had taken her a full two
