Chapter 14

“James, he will become Baron Pennington.”

“After me, Father, unless you’re planning on disinheriting me?” That could be a very real possibility if he discovered that the man with whom I was sharing digs was in actuality sharing my bed.

“Nonsense!” he rumbled. “You’re the first born!”

“Then let my son stay with his mother. There will be time enough for him to learn his responsibilities to the title. Meanwhile, I’ll want your word that you will not meddle in my affairs again. Jamie stays with his mother.”

Father’s lips were a tight line. “I give you my word. However, let me inform you that it is my intention to put him on the House List.”

I shrugged. I had no objection to my son going to Eton as I had done, but he’d be thirteen, and thirteen years was a long time. “And you, Mother?”

“Really!”