CHAPTER 16

GET PREGNANT FOR HIM.

Those words weighed like a heavy stone in Susan's mind as they re-entered the Soiree room. She shook her head to organise her thought. Of course, she would love nothing more than to carry the man's child, but not in the way Elora had explained it.

As expected, the room was in full swing. Women chattered here and there while the men boasted about their wealth and achievements to each other. Viscount William's head rotated around the room in search of Susan and when he spotted her alone in a corner, his lips lifted. He had seen her earlier but they had barely spoken to each other that evening as one of the women always found a way to whisk her away from him. Now she was alone, he couldn't be happier. Quickly excusing himself from the group of men he had been discussing with, he approached her.