Chapter 9: Time to Show Your Power
(Eleanor's POV)
"That is absolutely not happening."
Dominic's voice was iron. No hesitation, no softening.
I struck my cane against the carpet hard enough to make the crystal on the side table rattle.
"You are a fool," I said. "A blind fool. Do you have any idea what kind of woman Caroline Lowells is? Her family, her upbringing, her character - she is everything this family needs. Everything *you* need. And you threw her away."
Something shifted behind his eyes. The cold hardened into something older, something that had been sitting in him for a long time.
"That marriage," he said, biting each word, "was a trap. I didn't choose it. I was handed it, and I was expected to be grateful."
"Don't you dare-"
"Two years, Grandmother. Two years o
