
And the sun rose over the Cotswolds, painting the old stone cottage in blood-red light, while Lord P paced the creaking floorboards, phone silent in his pocket like a loaded gun.
He hadn’t texted her since yesterday’s exchange, the one where she’d pushed for his address and he’d slammed the door shut with that single, infuriating “soon.” The cottage smelled of wood smoke from the dying fire in the grate and the faint, bitter tang of his untouched whiskey on the side table.






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