Her attitude

"Samuel's point of view,"

"Samantha, please serve breakfast to Madam." She lingered with her bag back to the hallway.

"I'll prepare my morning meal." She gave Samantha the go-ahead to enter the kitchen.

I am not at all interested in dealing with this girl's temper tantrum, but I am compelled to due to the condition of my mother. I didn't want to see Scarlett's face after that night, but because of my mother's terms, I had to not only propose to her, but also marry her and bring her into this house with me.

Since she entered the house, I have felt suffocated. I had to make up many falsehoods to marry her, including the one about my fictitious separation from Clara. I had to present a convincing and false front to her mother. I had to resort to coercion to convince her after she refused my marriage proposal outright.

Besides my mother's terms, I had another reason to marry her. She tore up the contract in front of me and tossed it into bits after initially rejecting my proposal. I m