![]() ![]() He also has a lady to whom he is rumored to be all but betrothed. The duke's beloved (legitimate) son and heir, the Earl of Kipwick has secrets he does not want his father to know that could disgrace him and send him into a financial spiral. ![]() In Mick's mind, he owes him that at the very least for throwing him away like so much rubbish. The man will not even give him the courtesy of a face-to-face meeting. He's wealthy, successful, respected - if not accepted - by London society but his natural father, The Duke of Hedley refuses to acknowledge him. Thirty-one-year-old Mick Trewlove has achieved everything he set out to accomplish.with one exception. ![]() Mick stumbled upon the truth of his origins at an early age and from that point forward he had but one goal in mind: to become wealthy and successful enough to make his natural father acknowledge him. ![]() Mick Trewlove was one of the lucky ones who did not but staying alive did not equate to an easy life. What may, or may not, have been known by those same men is that many of those babies ended up in unmarked graves. In exchange for coin, poor widows would take their bastards into their homes. In 1840 London, there was a well-known method among men of means. There have always been babies born on the wrong side of the blanket and various ways of dealing with them. ![]()
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