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Chapter Nineteen: The Rumour
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Cindy had expected the photograph to unsettle Beatrice. She hadn't expected, checking the society pages three days later, to find no trace of any reaction at all — no whispered gossip about tension in the new marriage, no photograph of a strained smile at some public appearance, nothing but the same infuriatingly composed coverage of "London's most talked-about new couple" that had been running since the wedding.
She'd spent those three days in a strange, restless limbo, refreshing the same handful of society columns more times than she cared to admit, waiting for some crack to show — a cancelled appearance, a terse quote, anything that suggested the photogra
