Midnight Sins: A Spicy Compilation
The drafty study of the Hawthorn estate was bathed in the amber glow of dying embers and a single, flickering candelabra. Outside, the Yorkshire moors howled with a restless wind, but inside, the air was heavy with a different kind of storm.
Thalia sat rigidly in a high-backed velvet chair, her hands clasped in her lap, her knuckles white. She wore a high-collared white blouse and a floor-length wool skirt, the attire of a proper young ward, but the fire in her eyes was anything but submissive. Standing before her, silhouetted against the dark oak bookshelves, was Beatrice. As the governess, Beatrice wore a charcoal dress that cinched her waist with unforgiving precision, her hair pulled bac
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