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Wait, what? He’s 32? I thought he is 33?

War does not ask which of its victims deserves to die & which does not. It is indiscriminate. Innocent as well as guilty fall before it.

Finally! Cat knows the truth about Daphne & Thomas.

And yet, she acknowledges, it doesn’t change the fact that she loves him even when she’d thought him unfaithful.

Duh. This is 7 MONTHS later, not years. So Marcus is only about 3 years younger, if I were to guess.

And he must have ended up @ Thomas’s house.

Aha. So Marcus is Cat’s 18-year old brother. So 10 years younger than her?

I thought at first he was Thomas’s brother, who’d married Cat’s mom(?).

Chapter 17 ... 7 months later ...

A guilty conscience ... is a sinner’s worst flail.

When she had been introduced, he’d grabbed her hand. His was hot, dry tensile strength in his long, bony fingers.

Nooooo!!! Not again with the tensile strength!!!

dark broadcloth stretched across ... shoulders, emphasizing ... breadth; ... buff trousers displaying ... muscles of ... thighs & calves to advantage. His shirt ... a flawless expanse of snowy linen, his waistcoat of pearl gray satin, his cravat ... intricately tied .... And his roguish, charming smile lit up his gypsy-dark eyes.

Puts me to mind of Colin Firth’s Mr. Darcy. Yum!

“No,” she whispered, placing a supplicating hand on his broad chest. Through the fine law, she could feel the heat of him, the hardness of his muscles.

Through the fine lawN?