Simon Arthur Henry Fitzranulph Basset Quotes

“Your father is still ruling you from the grave.”

″‘I can’t even look at him,’ he gasped. ‘I can’t even bear to look at him.‘”

“The household prayed for the duke, who so wanted an heir, and a few remembered to pray for the duchess, who had grown thin and frail even as her belly had grown round and wide.”

“Simon felt the duke’s rejection in his very bones, felt a peculiar kind of pain enter his body and creep around his heart. And, as hatred flooded his body and poured from his eyes, he made a solemn vow. If he couldn’t be the son his father wanted, then by God, he’d be the exact opposite…”