Will Marsden is a man on the run from his memories and his past. Steward of Denton Manor was a good position until Captain Dearne, the owner, lost the manor on the turn of a card. When the feckless Dearne is dumped unconscious and near death on his doorstep, Will grudgingly accepts an enormous sum of money to care for him.<br><br>Dearne regains consciousness but has no memories of how he came to be in the bed of a dark-haired, angry, but gorgeous man or how he came to be so badly injured.<br><br>When nightmares drive Dearne into Will’s arms every night, the attraction between them explodes. As Dearne battles with lost memories, he is forced to accept the fact that someone in his family wants him dead, and Will is forced to confront his past head on. Will the revelations uncovered manage to tear them apart?

Memories

“Barely worth even that.” Will drained the last of his port. “Do you want me to change your dressing before we retire?”


Dearne ran his finger over the rim of his glass and watched its progress for a moment before looking up, meeting Will’s gaze. “Do you want to change my dressing?”


Will’s heart thumped and his body hardened. He had been half hard all evening but with those softly spoken words, with the question shimmering in his eyes, he was aching. Every part of him aching. He coughed a couple of times and tried to think of a way to respond.


Dearne’s next words, however, doused most of the arousal which had him as taut as a bowstring.


“Your accent changes. Did you know that?”


“It does.” Dearne said laughing. “Sometimes you sound as though you were born and bred in the wilds of Yorkshire, and sometimes you wouldn’t be out of place in the best drawing rooms the ton has to offer.”


Chapter 37