Chapter 15
My relationship with Seraphine became something nobody expected.
Family.
Not romance.
Not yet.
Maybe never.
We had breakfast weekly.
Argued about books.
She attended some dinners.
Skipped most.
Kept her own house eventually.
Yes.
She moved out.
People whispered.
Let them.
A living wife did not need to live under my roof to prove anything.
She kept the Thornwick name for a while.
Then returned to Vale.
Her choice.
That hurt more than I admitted.
Still hers.
Marriage had been real.
May you like
So had the years apart.
Names should follow people, not trap them.
