Desire and Despair Book 3 of Poacher s ProgressChapter 23 Just Desserts
A week after the wedding I asked Molly March if she would like to be adopted by me and Caroline. If she agreed it would take place in March when, according to her reckoning, she would be fifteen years of age. Molly gazed at me with those luminous violet eyes and I saw tears form. "Shall I be your daughter then, Master Jack?" The wonderment in her voice caused me to swallow the lump forming in my throat. "Yes, but I would no longer be Master Jack but father, and Caroline would be your...