The Wife They Rejected Was a Billionaire Heiress
"Take her to the family chapel. It's time she learned a lesson."
Beside her, Chloe pressed a hand to her still-stinging cheek, quietly delighted underneath the theater of it.
The Blackwood family had an old disciplinary tradition, split down gendered lines. A man who stepped out of line got ten strikes across the palm with a cane.
A woman, though a woman who broke the rules got dragged into the family chapel, stripped of dignity in front of generations of ancestors, publicly humiliated, and made to kneel for three days and nights straight.
No physical violence, technically. But the psychological toll of something like that would break most adults, let alone a child.