*Matilda*
Unfortunately, the damned beta Rexton did not agree.
He has arrived early, so early that Gina Is not yet ready. He had to have known she wouldn’t be. He had then had the audacity to insist a servant fetch me to keep him company while he waited in the parlor.
I'm a bit miffed by his high-handedness and decide to join him simply to set him straight that we might be on the brink of having an affair, but he doesn’t own me. I'm not going to come at his beck and call.
I arrive to discover that keeping him company hadn’t been on his mind at all. Rather, he has anticipated that he would have to convince me to join them.
I don’t like at all that he had made himself perfectly at home, has poured us each a glass of whisky, and now enjoys his in a lazy manner, one shoulder pressed to t
