Though he was betrothed, Killian had no intentions of marrying his hellion from hell for many years. Yet when she broke into his house and stood in his bedchamber giving him an ultimatum he didn’t have any other option but to. He just prayed he could survive living with her without going insane or wringing her delicate neck. He was even more astounded when she thought she could set the terms of their marriage. No way would he allow it, if he was going to have any control over the little, trouble making chit he had to teach her who was in charge from the start.
No matter what threats her father made, Modesty refused to be payment for his gambling debt. When he threatens to lock her aunt away in an asylum there was only one way to save the dear woman. Though she loathed to do it, she didn’t have much choice. Confronting the fornicating cad, she shouldn’t have been at all surprised to find him with his latest lover. Now she had no doubt he would eagerly agree to live apart and that would suit her just fine. Since they loathed the very sight of each other she had no intentions of ever being a true wife to him, beside she knew he would never be faithful.