Wrecked by my enemy
His mother did not turn around when the door clicked shut.
Catherine Hawthorne was a woman carefully, precisely diminished. Once an heiress of immense sharp intelligence and sharp-tongued ambition, fifteen years of living inside Victor Hawthorne had systematically filed her opinions down to safe, harmless shapes. She had learned, through a series of quiet, devastating lessons, that having a distinct personality in Victor’s house was a luxury she couldn't afford. She survived by becoming part of the architecture—graceful, silent, and entirely predictable.
She stood before a long stone trestle, holding a slender copper watering can, her movements slow and deliberate. Her silver-spun hair was p
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