She sadly had come to think, after kissing Timothy, that, like a fairy tale princess, she might get to have a happy ending. She didn’t feel that crush of novels, but she was sure that something was going on between her and Timothy, but Equilay took away her chance to find out what it was, because now, that Italian hated her to death.
To such an extent that he was willing to sacrifice his bachelorhood to marry someone like her, someone he loathed.
And of course, there was the part of the fortune, she who would have gladly helped him, not only because of the economic situation and stability that Timothy could bring her, but because he appreciated her as a good person, one that she was almost sure had been hurt and now he could not allow himself to trust anyone.
And he believed that she fa
