Chapter 1

 

'My Lord you sent for me?' I spoke with hesitation as I stepped through the door.

'Yes Lily, please take a seat,' Viscount Lucas Martin replied back to me as he pointed to the empty seat opposite to where he sat at his desk. I followed his instruction willingly; glad to face him from a seated position instead of standing up awkwardly and fidgeting with my hands in front of him as I was sometimes prone to doing when I was nervous. I had no doubt that a difficult conversation was about to follow between us, one that I had been waiting for.

'Lily it has been a while since we have spoken properly, I apologise for my neglect of you. I had not expected that taking on this estate along with my new responsibilities that follow from it would be so time-consuming. But you have my full attention now. I would like to know how you fair so far, and if you have settled into your new life here in the country?' He asked me in his rich masculine deep voice as he put down the book he had been reading onto his desk.

'My Lord, I am very well...you have no reason to worry about me,' I spoke automatically, feeling myself get a little hot and bothered as his intense looking green eyes observed me from where he sat. An irrational part of me started to believe that he could already read my unsaid thoughts right from my mind.