A Dangerous Deceit by Alissa Johnson

Author:Alissa Johnson [Johnson, Alissa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-05-18T16:00:00+00:00

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Jane wished there were something she could say to Gabriel besides, “Sorry.” It seemed completely insufficient for what she had done.

She didn’t want to look at him. And yet she couldn’t seem to stop herself, and every time she saw his reddened lip, she felt utterly ashamed.

Not that he seemed to mind the injury. She supposed it was a relatively minor wound for him. But it was significant to her.

She hadn’t hit a person in years. She hadn’t lost control of herself since she’d been a child, when the frustration of always being wrong, constantly being misunderstood, would build and build until it finally tripped over the line into anger. The smallest thing would set her off—a single insult, a challenging lesson, a snappish tone. There was a reason she’d had so many governesses over the years, and why many of them had been perfectly happy to lock her in the nursery after dinner and leave her alone. No one liked to care for a child who not only failed at her lessons but also routinely left bruises.

It could be argued that some of them had more than deserved her temper. A few of them had been nothing short of completely vile human beings. But the shameful behavior of others did not excuse her own. She was better than that. She had been better for a long time. She never wanted to go back to the frightened, furious little girl she’d been.

Not even in her dreams.

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