Ann Lethbridge - The Gamekeeper's Lady

Would he even be willing? Perhaps if she offered to pay him? She didn’t have much money, but she had some.

He glanced at her with a raised brow.

Heat suffused her face. What would he think of her, if she asked him to pose in the nude?

‘Tired of waiting?’ he asked.

She shook her head. ‘Do you know why they call this Gallows Hill?’ she choked out over the pounding of her heart.

‘No.’

‘They hung the last highwayman in the district here. Mad Jack Kilgrew. Apparently, he took to the roads when he wasn’t allowed to marry the girl he loved.’ She knew she was gabbling, but she couldn’t stop. And since she didn’t have the nerve to broach what was on her mind, she just kept going. ‘They say all the local ladies were in love with him because he was so handsome and only ever stole kisses—the reason the menfolk hanged him out of hand.’

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