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When she got back to the room she shared with Mo, Tess flopped on her bed and let the tears flow. She felt sure that Sebastian had already gone back to the ball and found an eligible maiden with which to dance. After all, he was supposed to find a bride this evening.
She wanted so much to simply forgive him, like Mo apparently had Pierce, but she couldn’t let the hurt go. It wasn’t the first time someone had angled for a relationship with her to get access to her brothers, but it certainly hurt the most.
Even though she longed to believe that he changed his mind about using her the moment he met her, the niggling fear that he was still manipulating the situation simply wouldn’t go away.
Her brothers seemed to have forgiven the lapse in judgment, but she wasn’t able to let the hurt g
