It was a complicated game, like chess but with money, commodities, and people as his pieces. Pawns, all of them—even the queen. He laid it all out, strategies and tactics, but never tactics without strategy. He’d suffered a setback in the Wilmot affair, but the papers he’d sought had not been fou...
She should have been angry, but she was only surprised and disappointed. She had almost convinced herself that Aidan would care about Ian’s feelings, but this was exactly the sort of behavior she had predicted to Tom. Perhaps it was for the best. If Forster couldn’t play with a child for an hour ...