I arrived at the Nantucket Lighthouse two days before Valentine’s Day, time enough I thought, to forget. The two keys had been mailed to me and as I...slipped the bright gold one into the door of the cottage I felt a sharp breeze across my neck. I nearly turned to look but decided I was just being silly and entered my home for the next five days. It was furnished as you would expect it might be. Comfortable overstuffed furniture, shabby chic we would have called it back in the city, but it was. "Seth! Ummm..." I closed my eyes tightly, kissing him blindly, pulling the man to my mouth as I shoved my tongue into his mouth."I love you, Amber," he breathed a moment later, still inside me, still leaking his sperm inside my womb."I love you," I sighed and all I could do was look at him and know I'd spoken the truth. I'd never be able to hide anything from this man, he'd seen all of me already and we'd barely met.Seth remained inside me and unlike with my husband, I was in no hurry to let. His most redeeming quality it seemed was his ability to remain outwardly sober whilst consuming large quantities of wine and spirits.Willoughby presented his credentials to the Prime Minister – his Majesty was still travelling in Italy – and took over the embassy by the end of June.Richard and Ellen would have preferred for Colleen and Melissa to return from Italy before they left, but Ellen wanted to leave as soon as practicable. She had a reason too. Her menses had ceased right after the duel. Seth was surprised they were so ordinary looking, so ragged and worn. He had seen lots of soldiers, but none like these. They swung one leg after the other almost like machines. They bent their backs, and they carried their rifles and packs every which way, frypans dangling at their waists.Their enemy was the sun, and their merciless foe grew stronger every hour. No quarter offered.As Seth watched and listened from a patch of shade, cavalrymen, even General McCausland himself as Wainder pointed.