3 Chapter 3

Six months later, he’d brought a carriage and his heart to Tom’s door. He’d even tidied himself up: he would not wear an opulent towering wig, not even for Tom, and the sun-streaks in his brown hair would be unfashionable, but he’d bought some new coats and remembered how to speak like a gentleman. He’d been raised as one until the age of ten, after all. The old duke of Teviston had provided for all his illegitimate children right up until his death, at which point the new duke had thrown them all out with two hours’ warning. Ellis Eden, pirate, had fought hard to lose the accent, along with any ties to that former life.