Wicked:. Noelle Mack
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Название: Wicked:
Автор: Noelle Mack
Издательство: Ingram
Жанр: Исторические любовные романы
isbn: 9780758247841
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“Why?”
“He explained that it meant you were next.”
“I dodged him,” she said flatly. “His wife had her suspicions, but she was entirely wrong.”
“I see,” Victor said cheerfully. “I do like the forthright way you say that. It sounds as if you are done pretending to be outraged.”
He looked at her through narrowed eyes and it began to dawn on Angelica that she would do well to play along for the time being.
“You must know by now how the world works. Women do not choose their destinies unless luck is on their side and it is not on yours. What do you think? Shall we come to some sort of agreement concerning your, ah, employment?”
She hesitated, unable to formulate a plausible lie in time.
“You don’t want to be a maid or a draggletail, do you? My man found no money on you when he rolled you in burlap and took you out the back way of that huge house. Going downhill is all too easy for a woman with no family.” He smirked again, more widely this time. “Am I not right, Angelica?”
She nodded and sank upon the bed, twisting her hands until they hurt, not looking at Victor, not seeing anything in her pain.
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