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Chapter 27: Catherine’s Humiliation

Aвтор: FortunaSolis
last update publish date: 2025-12-27 19:35:50

Catherine had chosen the dress carefully.

It was conservative enough to avoid comment and expensive enough to signal compliance. Pale blue. Structured shoulders. Sleeves that reached her wrists. Nothing that invited praise and nothing that invited criticism. Or so she had hoped.

The luncheon was held in the Hawthorne residence, a stone house set back from the road behind iron gates and trimmed hedges that never grew uneven. The table had been laid long before the guests arrived. Linen pressed f
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