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Chapters (73)
  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. PART ONE
  4. ONE
  5. TWO
  6. THREE
  7. FOUR
  8. FIVE
  9. SIX
  10. SEVEN
  11. EIGHT
  12. NINE
  13. TEN
  14. ELEVEN
  15. PART TWO
  16. TWELVE
  17. THIRTEEN
  18. FOURTEEN
  19. FIFTEEN
  20. SIXTEEN
  21. SEVENTEEN
  22. EIGHTEEN
  23. NINETEEN
  24. TWENTY
  25. TWENTY-ONE
  26. TWENTY-TWO
  27. TWENTY-THREE
  28. TWENTY-FOUR
  29. TWENTY-FIVE
  30. TWENTY-SIX
  31. TWENTY-SEVEN
  32. TWENTY-EIGHT
  33. TWENTY-NINE
  34. THIRTY
  35. THIRTY-ONE
  36. THIRTY-TWO
  37. PART THREE
  38. THIRTY-THREE
  39. THIRTY-FOUR
  40. THIRTY-FIVE
  41. THIRTY-SIX
  42. THIRTY-SEVEN
  43. THIRTY-EIGHT
  44. THIRTY-NINE
  45. FORTY
  46. FORTY-ONE
  47. FORTY-TWO
  48. FORTY-THREE
  49. FORTY-FOUR
  50. PART FOUR
  51. FORTY-FIVE
  52. FORTY-SIX
  53. FORTY-SEVEN
  54. FORTY-EIGHT
  55. FORTY-NINE
  56. FIFTY
  57. FIFTY-ONE
  58. FIFTY-TWO
  59. FIFTY-THREE
  60. PART FIVE
  61. FIFTY-FOUR
  62. FIFTY-FIVE
  63. FIFTY-SIX
  64. FIFTY-SEVEN
  65. FIFTY-EIGHT
  66. FIFTY-NINE
  67. SIXTY
  68. SIXTY-ONE
  69. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  70. Keep Reading …
  71. About the Author
  72. Also by Barbara Taylor Bradford
  73. About the Publisher

The tears rolled down his cheeks and he buried his head in the pillow, crying for her, for the pain she would be enduring, filled with a sense of loss.

Never to see her again, never to know her better, to be friends if nothing else was possible, just to see her sometimes. Angela was not going to live, he knew that. Sarah had made that clear. Blackie cried for a long time. He thought his heart was breaking.

Eventually he quelled his tears, and got out of bed, went to open the window. He sat on his bed, his thoughts whirling once again in his busy mind. Earlier, when Sarah had arrived, and accused him of attacking Angela, he had been enraged. He could not understand why someone who knew him would believe he could ever assault a woman.

He had been furious with her. But his anger had fled. Blackie knew that Sarah had leaped to a conclusion, not believed Angela’s explanation, because she had realized Angela cared for him, might be protecting him even. Her sister Angela was sincere.

And now, in the middle of the night, as devastated as he was about Angela’s illness, he knew one thing. And it was this … Angela had been emotionally involved with him, as he had been with her. And somehow this bit of knowledge gave him a little solace, something to cling to always.

PART THREE

Chances with Challenges

Yorkshire & London

1903

THIRTY-THREE

He sat at his Georgian desk in his library in the house he owned and loved in Grosvenor Square, at the heart of Mayfair.

His attention was focused on his own name on the contract he was about to sign: Robert Marmaduke Allenwood Lassiter.

Lifting his sleek, dark head, he looked across at his closest friend, Adrian Fraser, and said, ‘I wonder what my parents were thinking when they burdened me with such a long name?’

Adrian chuckled, ‘Family tradition, old chap. Marmaduke’s been one of your male names for centuries, and, of course, your great-grandmother’s maiden name was Allenwood, from which—’

‘Our fortune sprang,’ Robert cut in, also chuckling, his very blue eyes fixed on his friend.

‘Correct. And don’t forget, you’ve gone and burdened your eldest son with the same middle names.’

‘Poor chap! I have done that, but Quentin doesn’t mind. Anyway, here goes, I’d better sign it, get it done.’ As he spoke he picked up his pen, signed the contract and put the pen back in the inkstand.