02-14-2022, 03:03 AM
End up like her. End up like her. What did she think Lory thought she was doing? Trying to lock down some good-for-nothing boy whose promises came and went with the waves? Her lips pulled back in a close-mouthed sneer.
“Alice.” She spat her name like a profanity, this time. “If I marry a man, it’s to inherit – and fast. You believed in a boy, and look where that got you! Don’t you want more than life as some man’s property?”
“Alice.” She spat her name like a profanity, this time. “If I marry a man, it’s to inherit – and fast. You believed in a boy, and look where that got you! Don’t you want more than life as some man’s property?”
