42
EMILY’S POV.
I was horrified. Why would Sadie be in my bed? When had she arrived? For how long had she been laying there? Why was she in my room? Even though her family looked down on me because they felt I wasn’t good enough for John, there was something called privacy, and I had the right to…
I stopped thinking. Why was her face bloated, and her eyes red? Had she been crying?
“You broke off the engagement with John? But my family thinks… oh no. Lady Genevieve is not going to be pleased with that. It would be huge news. Everyone would think there’s a huge story behind it. They might assume John cheated, or he was maltreating you, or he used to hit you… it’s going to be big news.
“The reporters will want to dig up dirt on us because they’ll want to know why you broke off the engage
