Kiss Me, I'm Desperate

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Horn: That's what I thought. But don't be too hard on him— he's desperate. He wasn't looking forward to it, I'll tell you— so you can imagine why he leaped at the chance to find an alternative way out of of marrying either of them.

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Kathy: He never mentioned this. He said the Duchess had no heirs.
Horn: That's technically true. She has no direct descendants. She would have to name her successor— which for some reason, she adamantly refuses to do...

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Horn: She says an heir is like an open casket. But if you ask me, she didn't want her poor pet clerk forced into a marriage that would kill him on the wedding night!