I'm home alone, and have off tomorrow. I think it is time for another #bHeath21 read.

Tonight's selection is Between The Devil & Desire which I took on vacation but didn't read.

This. Line.
"Yet, he was beautiful in a rugged sort of way, like the manner in which a jagged coastline at dawn could steal one's breath with its magnificence."

Why hello Jack Dodger. #bHeath21

Also, Jack is the best name for love interests. I'm not taking questions at this time. #bHeath21

https://twitter.com/bandherbooks/status/1334226879063220233?s=20 #bHeath21

Ah, a widowed Duchess who's dead husband did not enjoy kissing. This is going to be great, and I'm only two pages in. #bHeath21

Olivia and Jack Dodger are both at the reading of her husband's will. And Jack has no idea why he is there. And gasp he uses LANGUAGE. #bHeath21

and oh shit. for some unknown reason Jack Dodger is now the guardian of Olivia and her 5 year old son, until her son reaches majority or she weds again. And if he fulfills this duty, Jack will receive something of "immeasurable worth." #bHeath21

Olivia asks if he wants tea.
"I was thinking whiskey, gin, rum. All three if you have them." #bHeath21

hooey, Jack calls Olivia "duchess" sneeringly but I think that will turn into a little something more endearing as this story goes on. #bHeath21

CW: child sexual assualt (in the past).

jack fears he received this inheritance because the dead Duke might have been the man who Jack's mother sold him too when he was five (and abused him, causing Jack to run away the next day to the streets). #bheath21