waking up with the duke by lorraine heath

Watching him battle against his desire for Jayne and his desire to make all of this right made for a good story.

He’s longed for Jayne from afar all this time and understands why she hates him even though he wishes she didn’t. Ainsley has wanted Jayne from the jump but his friend beat him to the punch. He wants to see her happy again and he thinks a child will do the trick so he asks Ainsley to do this for him.Īinsley is totally against the stupid plan because it’s crazy and because he wants Jayne too much. Walfort comes up with this insane idea that Ainsley owes him for the accident and he wants Ainsley to get his wife with child so that he can have his heir and so his wife will have something to live for again. Jayne is really loyal to her husband and while that is all fine and dandy, as the story progresses and we realize that Walfort isn’t the angel or even the doting husband that he should, her loyalty starts getting on my nerves. She gives up hunting, even though she used to love it, she gives up dancing which again, she used to love and she gives up all of these things in the name of love. In an effort to support her husband, Jayne gives up pretty much everything. He was driving and he was reckless and he walked away with barely a scratch while her husband can’t walk anymore and their lives are forever changed.

After the accident, Jayne’s (the wife) grief becomes more than she can bear and she loses the baby and with Walfort out of commission, any hopes Jayne had of raising her own family die with the baby. Walfort can’t walk anymore and he can’t bed his wife anymore. Walfort becomes paralyzed and Ainsley holds the guilt of all of that close to his heart because he was the one that was driving. At the end of the night, Ainsley and Walfort get into what would be a modern day drunk driving accident and Walfort is forever changed. Three years ago, Ainsley got the good news that his best friend’s wife was pregnant with his heir and they went off to celebrate the happy news. In this book, we find out why he is the way that he is. He was the brother that was forever getting his brothers out of trouble and he’s pretty hot dang close to being perfect. We don’t get to know Ainsley much in both Westcliff and Stephen’s books, in those books he was the younger brother that acted like he was the oldest brother. Heath sure knows how to pull at my heart strings with the whole unrequited love thing and I felt Ainsley’s guilt and his longing for Jayne as if it were happening to me.

She does that once again with Ainsley’s story. She made me care about them as people and she did a bang up job of making me come to love them as well. One of the main reasons I enjoyed the first two books in this series so much was Heath did a wonderful job of making me apart of Westcliff and Stephen’s worlds. Lorraine Heath knows how to bring on the emotions when writing her stories.

Waking up with the duke by lorraine heath