![]() The marquess might as well have disowned him for all the help Adam had received since being banished to the colonies, and now he claimed the right to once again order Adam about like a pawn on a chessboard? The tittering of female laughter floated toward him on the breeze. Five words that ruined everything Adam had spent the last ten years building. Not even when he was turning his son’s entire life upside down. ![]() ![]() They’d never had much to say to each other-especially not since he’d sent Adam away in exile-and the Marquess of Clairborne didn’t mince words. Crumpled in his fist was the letter he’d received from his father. Adam hadn’t enjoyed the bustle and noise of a city for years now, but-once they’d sailed far enough out to give a view of the labyrinth of inlets and islands he’d come to love-he’d come up to the deck to say good-bye. He hadn’t bothered when they were leaving port. ![]() The Carolina coastline grew more and more distant as Adam watched from the ship’s railing. ![]()
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