And let's not forget the incredibly hot sex! Thank you for the realistic scene, Milan. Milan's characters are well-developed, the plot is intriguing, and she writes in an easy-to-digest and quickly moving manner that makes it difficult to stop reading. I generally don't enjoy the time I spend there, and I often find myself at odds with fans of the genre, but thankfully this short story has high ratings because it's a tale that people who don't automatically love the genre can still enjoy. Historical romance isn't my least liked genre though it's nowhere near my favorite, but every now and then I feel the need to read something that isn't YA or fantasy and I branch out into the world of corsets, cravats, and carriages. The only problem I really had with this book was it was too short I really wanted more. I felt bad for both boys one finding out his dad is a pos cheater and that he had a brother, the other knowing he is a bastard. One not knowing he had a bastard brother. I thought the end was bitter sweet with the two brothers meeting as preteens. I also loved that he punched his boss for his wife. I loved that Hugo was so sweet and willing to raise another man's child. I have to say I liked that this story was a little different as it started out with something horrid like rape(not that you read the rape just that she shows up pregnant and she later tells what happened) but ends with a cute love story.

He plans it to be a married in name only to help her but they make love, which was really sweet, and they fall in love. She was pregnant from said rape and Hugo marries her behind the boss's back to keep her child from being labeled a bastard. The heroine Serena was raped by the hero's(Hugo) boss the Duke of Clermont. He’ll have to choose between the life that he needs, and the woman he is coming to love… But everything he has worked for depends upon seeing her gone. Unfortunately, fair means don’t work on Serena, and as he comes to know her, he discovers that he can’t bear to use foul ones. When his employer orders him to get rid of the pestering governess by fair means or foul, it’s just another day at the office. Hugo Marshall is a man of ruthless ambition-a characteristic that has served him well, elevating the coal miner’s son to the right hand man of a duke. But she can’t stop trying-not with her entire future at stake. The formidable former pugilist has a black reputation for handling all the duke’s dirty business, and when the duke turns her case over to him, she doesn’t stand a chance.

It’s his merciless man of business-the man known as the Wolf of Clermont.

Unable to find new work, she’s demanding compensation from the man who got her sacked: a petty, selfish, swinish duke. Three months ago, governess Serena Barton was let go from her position.

The governess affair by courtney milan