Chapter 21

Fury waited till she heard what she hoped was the Blue Chamber door shut, before rising from the bed.

The last thing she wanted was Flint prowling the villa. The second last actually. The last was Flint handing Susan a list of all his requirements.

Maybe she was playing this all wrong. Maybe she should have chosen Signor Santa-Rosa to father the Beaumont heir. He was pushing sixty but it would take more than the pawning of a pair of his candlesticks to keep Flint in sustenance, now he'd regained his taste for the high life. And had her just where he wanted her.

She swallowed a mouthful of coffee. A little knowledge was a dangerous thing.

She wanted to believe otherwise, but would even he stoop so low as to make up that story about his mother?