Chapter 17 Sold To The Lord Ash (1)
- Adelaide
- The carriage jolted over another stone in the road, sending my body forward despite the suffocating tightness of my corset. I could hardly breathe; the boning dug into my ribs with every shallow inhale.
- Beside me sat Lady Whitcombe, a distant cousin of my father’s, assigned to escort me to my new “home.”