" He’d do what was best for her. He’d take her to safety and send her back home to a bright future…with a
more honorable man than him. The stick broke in his hand, and he muttered an oath. All he wanted was for Amelia to be safe and happy, dammit. That and to beat every honorable man in England into the dust. "

― Tamara Hughes , Beauty's Curse (Love on the High Seas, #2)