Lawfully Wedded Nanny (BWWM)
“It wasn’t Juliet’s cruelty, or Vivian’s venom. It was Monet, standing there with her head bowed, apologizing for being alive. Do you realize what kind of wound makes a person say that?”
Richard shut his eyes briefly, as if the memory itself scraped him raw.
“She’s no ghost, Richard,” Florence said, firm now, unshaking. “She bleeds, she bruises, she trembles—but she still walks straight into fire for those children. That girl may have come to this family as a stranger, but I’ll tell you this—” her voice softened into something aching, “—she belongs now. More than either of those women who sat sipping tea and throwing stones.”
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