The Heiress he never met
Wren found Margaret herself a few days later, in the same small library where they'd spoken after the vote, and this time Margaret looked up immediately, something almost like welcome in her expression.
"Sebastian tells me you're stepping back," Wren said, settling into the chair across from her.
"Word travels quickly in this house. It always has." Margaret set aside the papers she'd been reviewing — retirement planning documents, Wren noted, an oddly mundane detail for a woman whose entire adult identity had been built around never appearing mundane. "I imagine you have opinions about the decision."
"I think it's brave," Wren said, simply. "I don't think most people who've spent thirty year