Winning the Viscount’s heart (Regency Romance) (Regency Lords Book 2) by Regina Darcy Read Free Book Online Page A

feelings she had so cruelly rejected surfaced like a tidal wave. He decided to behave with uncharacteristic boldness; he kissed her softly on the lips.
    It was the sweetest thing that Emmeline had ever experienced.
     

EPILOGUE
     
    The following year turned out to be a rather eventful one. Before anyone could approach the Count and seek an explanation for his behaviour and retribution for what he had tried to do, he returned to France where the privilege of his station would protect him for the remainder of his life. His plot was foiled, however, and that was what mattered.
    Emmeline and Lord Blackwood were married within months of realizing their mutual feelings of attraction and admiration. It was a wonderful marriage, and all of their friends and family were in attendance. Emmeline was quite glad that she hadn’t eloped, for she realized that a wedding is meant to be a happy affair. An event where you celebrate eternal love with all of the people that you care about. It is not meant to be something that is done in secret, or approach in a hasty manner.
    The year was not all happiness and cheer, however. Lord Blackwood’s father died shortly after the wedding. His health had been failing for quite some time, and after seeing his son happily married he finally found the courage to move on. It was a sad occasion.
    Lord Blackwood became the Earl of Dingby, a full member of the peerage. He was afforded a number of privileges that had not been available to him before, and his and Emmeline’s social status was increased dramatically as a result.
    The year was filled with much happiness, so the sad demise of Lord Blackwood’s father did not spoil the mood all that much, particularly since his declining health had lead most people to expect it to happen at any moment.
    Emmeline remained glad that she had seen sense and opened her heart to seeing the good qualities of Lord Blackwood. She realized that after all this time, she was going to be able to be with a man that truly loved her for who she was, someone that would not harm her or force her to do anything that she did not want.
    Sometimes she wondered what would have happened if she had not been saved. The Count would have ruined her, and she would have become unmarriageable. But this was not what happened, and she put such thoughts out of her mind whenever they came about.
    Instead, she thought of the future. She thought of children, and the prospect of watching them grow. She thought of her children getting married, and them having children of their own. And she thought of the joyous fact that throughout all of these moments, she would have Lord Blackwood by her side, the man she had always been meant to love but had simply been to childish to realize it.
    And so, in a way, her near catastrophe with the Count had been a good thing in a way. It had forced her to grow up a little and see the world in a different way. It had been part of the road that had led her to the man that truly was of her dreams, and as a result she was glad that it had happened, and she regretted nothing at all.
     
    The End

 
    BONUS CHAPTER 1:
    BEWITCHING THE VISCOUNT
     
     
    CHAPTER 1
     
    Lord Nathaniel Hughes, the Viscount of Wiltshire was bored. Ever since his close friend, the Duke of Staffordshire had tied the knot with the beautiful Miss Georgette Danford, he had been questioning his own bachelor status. The loving bliss the couple exuded had him longing for something other than his current, temporary liaisons with married women. He was by no means looking for a love match, far from it. However, the issue of an heir was of outmost importance. The only problem with his new, inexplicable, yearning was that he did not trust women at all.
    Anything else would have been unusual; after all, he had witnessed the treacherous nature of a woman first-hand.
    Now, Nathaniel was not prone to the incessant musings that afflicted many a gentlemen of his advanced age. That said, at the grand age of 28,