A Duke to Remember

I try not to look backwards, Elise. Makes is hard to see where you're going.

A thrill of something he couldn’t quite identify shot through Noah’s gut. He wondered briefly at her sudden change of heart but realized he didn’t really care. The idea of having this woman in his house was making it hard to breathe. Hard to think.

But the thing with secrets and lies... is that they have a habit of becoming complicated very quickly. They pile up, they become twisted and convoluted, until you can't remember what is real anymore

There is something that one learns when one is an actress... Every night you go out on that stage. Every night you pretend to be someone you're not. But eventually the curtain is drawn, and your audience goes home, and the costumes and the face paints get put away... No one can pretend forever to be someone they're not.

But now he is no longer a child. Now he is desperate. And desperate men are dangerous men