"I Never Wanted You," the Duke Told His Wife — She Left by Dawn, and He Meant It Until He Lost Her

"I never wanted you," Adrian Locke, Duke of Marrowby, told his wife on the night of their second anniversary, and by dawn Celia Fairbanks was gone, one trunk packed, her jewels left behind, nothing taken but her pride and her father's money that was hers alone. Two years later she is the quiet, brilliant proprietor of the finest woollen mill in the Scottish Borders, known to an entire town only as Mrs. Fairbanks, while the duke who cast her aside watches his estate crumble without the fortune he once took for granted. When his own creditors send him north to buy the one prospering asset that might save Marrowby, he discovers, standing in a cold counting-house doorway, that the mill belongs to the wife he broke beyond repair. What follows is a battle fought not with swords but with ledgers, lies, and a rival's honest devotion, as a proud man tries to unsay the cruelest sentence of his life in front of the one audience that might actually believe him. A meddling mother, a devoted mill manager, and a stack of separation papers stand between Adrian and the only thing he has ever truly wanted — but some debts, he learns, can only be repaid one honest winter at a time. Settle in for a full-length Regency romance of pride humbled, love rebuilt, and a duke who finally arrives on time. #DukeRomance #RegencyRomance #VictorianRomance #HistoricalRomanceAudiobook #DukeRomanceStory #FullRomanceAudiobook #LoveStoryNarration #DukeAndHeroine #RegencyDrama #RomanceAudioStory #SecondChanceRomance #EstrangedMarriage #MarriageOfConvenience #ScottishBordersRomance #DukeAndDuchess #RunawayDuchess #WoollenMillRomance #RegencyLoveStory #HistoricalFiction #CleanRomance #SweetRomance #AudiobookRomance #RomanceStoryTime #PeriodDrama #DukesAndLadies #ForbiddenLove #SlowBurnRomance #RedemptionArc #HeartbreakToHealing #WoundedDukeRomance #EdinburghRomance #FullLengthAudiobook #LoveAndForgiveness #RegencyEngland duke romance audiobook, regency romance full story, victorian romance story, estranged wife duke story, duke and runaway duchess, marriage of convenience romance, scottish mill romance story, duke begs for forgiveness, full length romance audiobook, sweet clean romance story, second chance love story duke, historical romance narration, duke loses everything for love, regency drama full story, forbidden love period drama, wool mill duchess story, duke redeems himself romance, slow burn historical romance, romance audiobook for sleep