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Except he underestimated me. Or overestimated himself. He could steal the money, my name, even a piece of my sanity. But he couldn’t steal me. Which meant I had the most important choice of my life, the first I made completely on my own.

“If guilt could mend anything,” she said quietly, “the world would be spotless.”

“Tom do you have any idea what it means to be a woman in this society?”

He blinked at her, confused.

“Do you have the slightest notion of our constant, debilitating fear knowing that at every moment, our fortunes depend upon staying in the good graces of the men in our lives that we are all, at every moment of the day, one step away ruination, whether we are a lowly gentleman‘s daughter or even a queen.”

“I know what it is to love an alcoholic.”

“So, did those jeans survive the coffee incident or did you have to burn them?”

I would have self combusted on the spot 😂