Nisa nodded as she watched her and almost tested the boundary once again but decided against it. "If it does displease you, you have every right to say. I hired you as my maid, not to be handled like a toy."

She listened as she sat calmly and quietly in her seat and watched Briar work. "Well. You are beautiful, but that gave him no right to eye you like a piece of meat or for his wife to punish you when you were the victim. "

She rose her brow and smiled more. She held up her hands towards Briar to take them. "You are a smart woman, just quiet which I enjoy. And I like that you didn't take it. My father in law thought I was easy prey and I was not. My only shame is that he wasn't punished. I severed the connection between us and salted the earth so he'd never return to me. If someone truly deserves your wrath, you do the same."

Not against her, of course. Other people.