Chapter 10

This can't possibly be taking place.

I force myself to get up and grab the note out of Mother's grasp. "You looked through my purse, didn't you?"

"What do you think you're doing?" is a rhetorical question. She makes a hissing sound as if my inquiry does not exist. "You have agreed to a sexual contract. You can't be talking to someone else behind the back of your fiance!

"I'm not seeing anyone. I have no doubt that you pursued it. It is an open offer to compensate for—"

"It is an open invitation to spread rumours. to disgrace and destitution" She pulls the card away from him and rips it in half, then again in half, and finally she throws the fragments of the card onto the carpet. "For how much longer has this been occurring?"

"For how many more minutes has this been going on?" I am on the verge of arguing that I've only been home for a few days, but then I realise that, in the eyes of the rest of the pack, I may be a spy for Greater London. Perhaps she believes that I was beating the ki