It had been three days since Athena had her date with Leon and they had kept up the night awake with stories about themselves. One thing was very clear to her after that night that Leon was a damaged man, with his flawed upbringing, patriarchal pressure on him and some wrong decisions and choices. Was it really necessary for her to be so angry at him that she could not see the truth and the pain which he had suffered?
Once again she carefully thought about what had been the situation on the night that they were supposed to be engaged. She knew about Leon only that much as Mrs. Casterfall had told her previously and there she had mentioned nothing about their problems in the family or about Liberty at all. That was what was supposed of her as a Southern Socialite wife but she had never exp
