He smiled.
“My friend was in love with an attractive girl he afterwards married, but she was an orphan with very little money and in his will he left her in my care.”
“I suspect that was rather different,” Selina said. “I am, of course, honoured to be your Ward and I am only wondering if people will think it – strange.”
They might easily think so, the Duke told himself. At the same time they would not be able to prove otherwise and it would be a brave person who would challenge him on the matter.
“Leave everything to me,” he said aloud. “I have told you to trust me, Selina.”
“You know that is what I – want to – do,” she said in a low voice.
She was still holding his hand and now her fingers tightened on his.
“I am beginning to learn that you are of very – great – importance, but whe
