Chapter 14 · free to read
Nine hundred drawers. My father brought me here when I was eleven, and I cried because I thought I would never learn them all. I could still walk to any one of them blindfold.
Let him think me a schemer with a marriage to buy. A scheming woman is a woman he understands, and a woman he understands is a woman he does not need to poison.
He had smiled me out of his hall, and reached for the drawer before the door was shut.
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