Chapter Fourteen
Madison had had only one scolding in her entire life. The one and only time was from her father. Madison had gone to stay with her father’s sister while he was away at an overnight event in Washington, DC. She’d begged him to go, promising she’d be on her best behavior. The General had been unmoved by her pleas, and Madison had been shipped off to Aunt Bess.
Aunt Bess was a tyrant who wouldn’t let Madison do anything but sit still and keep quiet. When Madison decided she’d had enough of Aunt Bess’s hospitality—which had been all of two hours into her stay—she decided she’d walk home. Over fifteen miles away. At the age of seven.
She’d been found three miles from Aunt Bess’s, walking on the side of the road. When her father had found out, he had been quiet at first. But
