Chapter 6Beware the destination of the unknown path, lad, especially with a willing and wanton female acting as your guide…
The stern warning flitted through Canaan’s mind when he followed his beautiful new lover to her bedchamber. As always, he ignored that insufferable ghost whispering the caveat of morality. His overly protective and critical mother, God rest her interfering soul, had begun voicing that particular malison during his youth at about the same time the fairer s*x started turning his head. Margaret Abbott Scarborough would spend endless hours gleefully planting seeds of suspicion in his mind regarding the pretty daughters of neighboring households who dared to flirt with him, and additional hours attempting to cultivate those malignant seeds, then grow more desperate and em
