His father had summoned him from Edinburgh all the way back home to Kent. Not knowing the reason until his arrival he felt a mixture of dread and anger towards what he was called to do

He has been ordered to marry Y/N Bridgerton…

Supposedly she had been kidnapped by Freddie Oakes, not assaulted and made impure but still…that long alone with a man was enough to ruin a young lady’s reputation forever

Sitting next to her now as she watched her two nephews play in the creek he seemed to just blurt it out “Will you marry me?”