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Lance balled and unballed his fists. After all these years, Lady Gwynfhar still got to him. It was likely because she had the face of the woman he loved stretched across her disapproving features.
The thought of Gwin’s rejection was his worst nightmare. So whenever he encountered his true love’s mother and her pinched face, his every doubt, his every misgiving, his every shame rose to the surface. It was cruel.
He didn’t expect Gwin to stand up for him in the face of her mother. There wasn’t much she could say if she did. Lance’s own mother had been a fallen woman. She’d fallen in love. She hadn’t known it was with someone else’s husband. When she found out, her heart fell in its cage. It broke and never got up again.
But she never fell into a life where she sold her body. She worked
