‘Whatever can I do about Jason?’ the Duke had asked himself a thousand times and never found an answer.
Yet now when he least expected it, Jason had returned home.
He had apologised in a way that made his father believe that he was being truthful and honest. He had even offered to make amends.
It was Jason who suggested he should make a marriage that his father and mother would approve of, and Jason who promised to do his best to produce an heir, which was so necessary for the future of the Dukedom.
“Find me a wife, Papa,” Jason had said. “And then we will be able to forget the past and look forward to a happy future.”
It was when the Duke thought he could not be hearing right that Della had sprung into his mind.
He had been watching her riding through the Park only the previous day
