Vanessa’s inheritance, upon the death of her parents, was a mountain of debt and an arranged marriage. Her greedy uncle had eagerly sold her off to be an ageing Count’s latest bride. To break the engagement, she needed a scandal. A truly dreadful, utterly ruinous scandal.
***
“Vanessa.”
“….”
“Is life so tedious?” he drawled, incredulous. “That you’d waste it entangled with the likes of me?”
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