Though Lucien still wished both Winnie’s father and uncle to the devil, he understood why she was so reluctant to enter into marriage at all. Much less one she perceived to be the mirror image of her parents’. And he could hardly blame her. It was a reasonable concern.He was not yet ready to give up, however. Not least because they were nothing like her parents. Winnie had already proven herself a strong-minded and sensitive woman who not only knew her own mind but would never stand for the sort of treatment her mother had endured at her father’s hands. And Lucien was sane enough and, frankly, wealthy enough to know there was no way on earth he’d ever feel the degree of enmity the Reverend Nightingale had felt for his wife. He simply didn’t have it in him. And though he’d not tell her this, he suspected that the attachment between the reverend and his wife had been merely physical at the outset. Though Lucien wanted Winnie in the worst way, their relationship was based on more than simple attraction.
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