Chapter Seven
Their pace slowed as they drew near the back entrance of the house. Lucretia was doing her best to keep her dignity about her. She kept her head up and her shoulders back. “But I’m…”
“There is more to pleasing a man than that one thing, Lucy. Much more.”
“Then I won’t…”
“I didn’t say that, but there are other ways and you will learn them.”
“I’m to be some sort of w***e then?”
“That is not what your father hired me to do, no.”
She halted and yanked her arm from his with a sharp huff. “Then what? Stop speaking to me in generalities. I am not an i***t, Dr. Addams. I have a mind and I have a will and I mean to know exactly what is going to be done to me.”
“And now, you will be punished for your lack of respect. Patience is highly valued here, little one. It’s time you lea
