Major Oliver Thornley never expected to see the man who saved his life at the battle of Waterloo again. He certainly never expected to fall over him in the street. When Thornley stumbles over a pile of rags, he is horrified to discover it is the man who dragged him from the battlefield to safety.<br><br>Taking the man back to his Mayfair home, Thornley nurses Daniel back to health as he battles with his own forbidden desires. Then he learns Daniel shares his feelings, as well. Though it feels so right when they are in each other’s arms, Thornley knows their mutual secret could see them hang.<br><br>Is there a way for them to be together despite the class difference that separates them? Can he admit he’s fallen in love before Daniel leaves for good?

Fallen

They sat in companionable silence for a while as they drank the tea and Simpson ate the cake until Oliver nodded at Simpson’s leg.


“You have a bad limp. What happened?”


Simpson wiped his mouth with a napkin and laid it on the table. “I was wounded at Waterloo.”


“No, before. To this day I don’t know how I managed to get you to the medical tent.”


“Good God,” Oliver gasped, staring at the man. “How on earth did you manage? What happened afterwards? I was unconscious for some time and when I came around you were gone.”


“I got you to safety and apparently passed out. I woke up with a sawbones thinking about amputating my leg.”


Oliver stared at him and then they both laughed. “I was out for weeks,” he said. “They patched me up and dispatched me back. I must admit, my leg isn’t the best.”


“So do you live alone?” Simpson said, changing the subject. “I seem to recall your old man pressing you to marry.”


Chapter 6