Chapter Eleven
Choices
“All women need limits, but men are limitless.”—James the Strong
Aggie told herself a baby would be the making of James the Strong, that he would burst forth from the shadows of his father and become the man she thought he should be . . . and when she didn’t believe that, she told herself she could manipulate with a little bed-diving.
The truth was, she didn’t have much choice.
James the Strong followed her about like one of those four-legged creatures who followed him about. But, unlike James the Strong, she didn’t toss sticks for him to fetch; she silently put up with him, unsure of what to do, what Arthur of the North would have her do.
Arthur of the North had embraced Aggie and James the Strong’s relationship, forever telling her that she would be the makin
