I Escaped Her Locked Estate in a Storm — By Morning I Held the Evidence That Would End Her at the 10 O’Clock Board Meeting
“They didn’t want to marry you off.
They wanted to annex you.”
That word of Flynn’s — annex — landed on me hard, and has stayed with me, because it named the thing precisely in a way I had not quite been able to name it myself, and the precision mattered.
What had been proposed to me at that dinner table was dressed in the language of romance and family and partnership.
Marriage.
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