Love Against Duty

g view of the games room, softly hummed a few lines of the slow song to which the couples danced. I want to feel the passion in this romance. Now hold me and touch me. A fa

emember all the things he said and all the things he promised. Marriages between the rich are just alliances and have a way of happening. A kind of moving with a tide of social pressure, not enforced but urged on, until the man found himself on one bende

y he just vanished into thin air, and it was assumed he walked into the fire and burned all his disappointments. Queen had been made the legal dependent of Christy, who has taken full custody of her, bringing her up as if she were a real daughter, paying for her education at exclusive schools, and hammering into he

e fact was that in her overbearingly charming way, Christy made Queen feel indebted to her, as if she owed her that extra bit of gratitude

lived at Greco Villa, which, over the years, Queen had grown to regard as her home. She loved the place with its rambling garden of orchards and apple trees. She could still remember the hardships of her early life with her fathe

ome reason, she felt a change in her mood-a sudden tension as if she were no

heard no footstep across the rug that covered the floor of the games room, and she felt as if something gripped her heart as she stared at that reflected face and saw that it belonged to a man. The eyes, even thr

silver gray eyes. In the silence of that long moment, Queen's impression was that a foreign sculptor had made this man and then stood h

ssness of a lion at nightfall? What game are you talking about? She asked, and she didn't dare to wonder what he had in mind-this handsome and slightly threatening stranger who found her al

d in his hand was a glass of white wine, used to highlight a point. There is

ere set at a slant in her otherwise quiet face. Her long blond hai