Summary
After my cousin, the marquis’s heir, fell into the water, his entire temperament changed.
Once gracious, gentle, and kind to everyone, he now wore a hard look in his eyes. There was something almost obsessive about him.
With me, in particular, he said whatever came into his head.
He insisted I had forced myself on him and left him under my thumb for the rest of his life.
I clapped a hand over his mouth in alarm.
“Cousin, don’t say such things! Neither of us is married. If you ruin our reputations, Aunt will have no choice but to marry us to each other.”
He stepped back, his eyes full of suspicion.
“You won’t trap me into marrying you again. Not in this life.”









