The birth certificate slid from Lady Jessica’s nerveless fingers. The initials J.L.B. had been her own. All this time she’d never guessed. Jessica Lenore Barton, daughter of the Duke of Grafton, straightened her shoulders, picked up her birth certificate and the key bearing her initials and finally turned her back on the name of Iris.
[FIRST] [PREVIOUS] (to be continued...)
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I must beg the pardons in advance of my U.K. readers. I am about to take all sorts of liberties with the Dukedom of Grafton. This is an ongoing work of fiction and all of characters are things of my own invention. They have nothing whatever to do with the real gentry of Grafton nor anywhere else for that matter. ;-p
6 comments:
You're doing a great job with this work, Osquer.
mmmm royal blood...very interesting...
Oh, no! The death of "Iris!" :) Seriously, I love this. Keep going. I'm working on Janey and Ruby currently. ;)
Thank you, Captain!
Not royal, Sam. *Curtsey's modestly.* Merely titled. Still, there might be a royal or two in the story...maybe.
Fret not, PW! It's more of a rebirth. I'll be over to see what my hero Ruby is up to!
;)
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