Sophronia ripped the plain gold wedding band from housemaid Dulcie’s finger and placed it on the auction table.
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Chapter 15
Sophronia returned to hosting eventually.
With limits.
Not because time erased what happened.
Because she changed enough to earn narrower trust.
She asked staff schedules rather than dictated them.
Never touched personal belongings.
Never used family rank to assign private punishment.
Basic.
Again.
Strange how often reform looks like behavior people should have known at ten.
Dulcie remained cautious.
They became something almost sisterly.
Not close.
May you like
Real.
Sometimes real is better than close.
