Joycee’s Reviews > When a Rogue Meets His Match > Status Update

You did your best. You watched over Eddie as well as you could. You loved your brother, and that farthing is the proof.

🥹

(Oh, good Lord. Ms. Hoyt sure knows how to tug at the heartstrings. What a timely revelation.)

Well … except for Messalina. She used to close her eyes in bliss at the first sip of her tea.

Coffee was one of the seven wonders of the world, and those who favored tea were daft.

She loathed cut flowers. They died and left a cloyingly sweet scent in the air.

“I thought you didn’t like him.”

“I don’t. But you do.”

“You’re stronger than you look.”

“You’re only now understanding that?”

I don’t think my preferences came into your decision at all. You wanted to score a point against Gideon, and if you had to go through my heart to do it, you saw no problem.

“The Life, Adventures, and Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton” = one of Daniel Defoe’s lesser-known works

He’d tried to win her with flowers only days ago - a ridiculous misstep - and now he gave her something utterly perfect.

An entire library.

🥰

I AM BATHING

That was the entire note, but Messalina knew an invitation when she received one.