The Heiress he never met
Wren found her alone in the townhouse's small library three days after the vote, sitting with a book open on her lap that she didn't appear to be reading, and hesitated in the doorway before finally stepping inside.
"You don't have to hover," Margaret said, without looking up. "I'm not going to collapse simply because the story is finally public. I've been braced for this for thirty years. If anything, I find the actual arrival of it considerably less catastrophic than the anticipation of it always was."
"I wanted to ask how you're doing. Genuinely, not as a formality."