My wife doesn't need anyone else's review.
Maeve's POV
My fingers tightened on the document without my meaning them to. I'd assumed that as long as Edmund agreed, this contract would hold. I'd overlooked the vast, cold family standing behind him — with house rules that bent for no one, and me nowhere near what they would accept.
The ed...
Login and Continue Reading
Chapters
1. Spread your legs. Good girl.
2. She's... Maeve?
3. How did you get all those scars?
4. Why won't any of you believe me?
5. Bronwyn, are you two sleeping together too?
6. Grandmother, I don't love him anymore
7. But you're sick. That isn't my fault.
8. It's not the first time he's done this.
9. Saffron. Why would you do this to Maeve?
10. I don't want to share it with her.
11. Do you think he's interested in you?
12. I want to marry you
13. Lord Percy, what are you doing here?
14. He had known about Saffron's scheme all along.
15. The One Who Wasn't Crushed
16. I was your daughter once. How did you treat me?
17. "Lord Percy, I apologize to you on behalf of the Howard family."
18. Paying the Price
19. You broke the contract
20. The Explosion
21. My wife was just struck by Bronwyn
22. Misunderstanding
23. You shouldn't be wasting your energy on things like this
24. My wife doesn't need anyone else's review.
25. Edmund would never accept a wife with a history of mental illness
26. Divorce, or Renounce Your Inheritance
27. Who would give up the family business for a wife on a contract?
28. The First Apology
29. You staked my wife first.
30. Chair, the prosecution requests to call a further witness.
31. Everything Is Still Unknown
32. This Is Only the Beginning
33. Giving Up Won't Buy You a Way Out
34. The Circus Would Suit Him Just Fine
35. The third floor is off-limits to you
36. "If you have the nerve to starve me," I said, "then go ahead and try."
37. Just do what you're supposed to do
38. He's the witness at our hearing
39. Then Call Off the Contract
40. Maeve, you're rather too sure of yourself
41. Maeve, did I say something you didn't want to hear?
42. Would you strike your own mother?
43. If I really do lose the succession, our life will get very bad
44. You're saying I'm a black bear?
45. Even your wife is about to turn her back on you
46. What if we already have that evidence?
Zoom out
Zoom in
