Her Stepmother Sent Her to the Duke as a Joke – He Offered Her a Chair Before He Said a Word

of an irritable, crippled man will leave you homeless.”

Norah froze. The logic was sound, brutally so, but hearing him say it sent a cold spike of panic through her chest. “Are you dismissing me?”

“I am proposing to you.”

The words dropped into the space between them like lead weights—heavy, unmovable, real.

Norah stared at him. “You hate society. You continue reading …