A Most Faithful Companion (Supposed Scandal #4)

A Most Faithful Companion (Supposed Scandal #4)

Author: Kasey Stockton Listening Length: 7h 39m
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She cannot afford scandal. He cannot forget her. Nine years ago, Emma Darling chose duty—and lost everything for it. With her parents gone, her standing in ruins, and her dreams packed away, she has survived by becoming an unimposing companion to the kind, if meddlesome, Mrs. Buckley. It is not the life she imagined, ...

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CHAPTER TWELVE

The Presleys’ roof took two days to fix entirely, but once it had been managed, Owen absorbed the rewarding accomplishment that came from working with his hands.

He had done so less and less since his promotion to captain, and he had missed exhausting his body to the point of sound, undisturbed sleep.

He immediately took to engaging the workmen who had begun the projects Uncle Edward had left unfinished. He trusted them to know his uncle’s vision and to be skilled and reliable. Uncle Edward had chosen them, after all.