The Artist and the Rake
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“Unless our babe has four feet, I’ve just been kicked here,” she patted one side of her stomach. “And here.” She patted the other side.
“Twins?” Marcus paled.
“So it seems.” She moved her hand back and forth. “Yes. Twins. I’m sure of it.”
He ran his fingers through his hair. “What should I do?”
“Do?” She looked startled. “Like what?”
“I don’t know. Something.”
Patting the seat alongside her again, she said, “My love, you’ve already done your part. The rest is up to me.”
Yes, Marcus had done his part. He took a broken woman and made her whole. Made her live again. Her paintings were selling well, and they had a wonderful marriage. Soon there would be a baby—or babies—to complete their family.
She hated to think Mrs. O’Leary had gotten away with what she’d done to her, but even though she never faced any jail time, she was required to sell her boarding house. Soon after that, she left Bath.
But Lizbeth often wondered how different her life would be had she not been fired and later kidnapped. She most likely would never have met Marcus. Things did always happen for a reason.
“They’re kicking again,” she said, holding her stomach.
Marcus groaned.
The End
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I hope you had fun reading Lizbeth and Marcus’s love story. For more Regency romance, check out The Doctor and the Libertine.
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Dr. Rayne Stevens has spent her entire life working toward following in her father’s footsteps and standing by his side in his medical clinic. Now that he has retired, she is the sole practitioner and is proud of what she’s accomplished, especially with the disdain she’s had to deal with due to being a woman in her chosen profession.
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After a tragedy puts Lord Sterling into an emotional spin that results in years of dissipation, he believes he has reached his lowest point when he turns up unconscious on Dr. Steven’s doorsteps after being dumped there by his friends.
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Suffering from injuries that keeps him in the clinic he begins to see the possibility of another life for himself. Now if he could only convince the beautiful, kind and caring doctor that he has turned the corner and is truly a different man.
Readers will remember Lord Sterling from The Courtesan’s Daughter and the Gentleman, and Dr. Stevens from The Artist and the Rake.
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First Edition April 2020