Chapter Eight“I am a man!”
Alyna woke and thought she heard the words spoken in Lord Dorrington’s deep voice.
For a moment she could not remember where she was and then, as she saw a pale light coming from between the curtains, she remembered that she was at Dorrington Park and that she was married.
She was sure that it was very early and looked to see if the doors of the little passage that connected her room with Lord Dorrington’s were still open.
They were.
And the memory of what had occurred came flooding over her.
She had an absurd impulse to jump out of bed and go to Lord Dorrington’s room and talk to him.
Everything last night had been so frightening and confused, yet now she remembered vividly why, having run to him frantic with terror, she had returned to the loneliness of
