“I Need A Wife, Come with me,” Duke Said — She Replied, “Only If You’ll Live At My Place”

The Duke of Bramber had four months to be married. His father's settlement gave away a third of the estate if he was unmarried at five and thirty — and a hundred and forty people on that third would wake up with a landlord two hundred and forty miles away. He had refused nine arranged matches in ten years and never once said why. So he got into a carriage, drove forty miles into country where nobody had ever seen him, and looked at farms — because a woman who runs a farm has never once been put in a chair beside anybody. He found her kneeling in a field of turnips with her sleeves up. She heard the whole of it — the settlement, the date, the four months — and she did not laugh and she did not curtsey and she never asked one question about his fortune. She said: "Only if you will live at my place." And she had a reason that had nothing to do with pride. A full-length historical romance. Four chapters. Slow burn, and it ends exactly how you hope. 🌍 Comment the country you're listening from — and what time it is where you are. 🔔 Subscribe for a new story every week. #historicalromance #historicaldrama #romancestory