Summary
Is your offer to serve me still valid, Walter? Edith Lowell, sold as the fourth wife to an old earl, faces a crisis: the earl falls into a coma, and she’s blackmailed to pass off another man’s child as the earl’s heir. Yet, Edith realizes when she’s with the stableman, her reality fades like a lie. “Then… take it off.” The man, a mere stableman with a more aristocratic presence than the earl, resembling her lost first love but with a completely different demeanor. “Do as you wish, Walter.” What started as survival becomes an affair with no end in sight. “You’ve given me permission for everything.” Neither she knew when this liaison would end.
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