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Chapter 70

Will turns to me. "Beth, while it's just you and me, there's something I'd like to say to you."

"Oh?" I wasn't expecting one of those conversations. I take shelter with my wineglass, giving my hands and mouth something to do. "What's that then?"

He gives a half-smile. Perhaps he expected my reaction…

A knack for reading people?

You don't become police commissioner without it…

Will continues, "Old friends and, I'll admit, shameless intrigue aside, I really did want the chance to talk to you properly."

I feel my face pinking up. "I was in a bit of a whirl actually. At the wedding, I mean. I kept trying to talk with people, but…"

"Too many strange faces?" He sounds sympathetic… "… The thing is, when you marry the wealthiest man for a hundred miles, everyone who's anyone, or who thinks they're anyone, wants to be seen to be there. And for reasons of… diplomacy… Richard has to go along with that kind of thing. As his wife, I'm afraid you must expect to be at the heart of a lot of political
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Gennessa Warren
I really wish everything wasn't master, they are in public even if she is thinking it should be Richard it's like instead of a wife he still just have a submissive like there is no other relationship I like the story but dang
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