Epilogue
E very time Kerrigan looked at the healing bruise on Christine’s face, he growled and threatened to travel to London and finish the job he started on Lord Newton.
About a month after their return Christine told Kerrigan that he would be a father. He held her tightly, kissed her all over and then refused to let her do anything except rest until she threatened to see to it that their child would not have a father when he was born.
Rupert turned out to be the best employee the castle ever saw. He and Isla married within months after the kidnapping.
Christine had a letter from Uncle Carl right after the babe, Douglas Kevin Lindsay, made his appearance. Ironically, he was in line to inherit the estate—which had once belonged to his maternal grandfather, before it fell into the hands of his greedy and unscrupulous great uncle—until he left for the Americas. Apparently, the man was doing well, had started a business, but found a wealthy woman to marry so he sold the business.
Some things never changed.