Serine is a young deaf woman.
Her family treats her as a disgrace, and she is kidnapped by a political enemy.
“You will become my woman.”
“Are you proposing to me?”
“Not quite.”
Although he was born into a noble family, he sneered like a back-alley rogue.
“Are you asking me to be your mistress?”
“That sounds tacky. Let’s call you my lover.”
Looking into his eyes, she realized that she was being treated like a toy.
He had picked her up because she was the family’s shame, intending to disgrace her further by any means necessary.
—
“Was it that good? You’re an unmarried lady, yet you don’t know shame, spilling it like that.”
“Please forgive me.”
The shame she had long forgotten burned her face. Even her deaf ears felt as though they were on fire.
“You said you wanted revenge. If you want to crush your family’s smug faces, you’ll have to try harder.”
The man slipped an arm under her and lifted her onto his lap.
“If that’s the case, you’ll have to learn to play a little more crudely.”
