Chapter 103

Girlie—when they were kids, Arthur called her that all the time.

Clara had not spent long in the orphanage or at the Kensington estate, barely a year or two of torment, so her spoiled, pampered temper had not yet been worn away.

If Arthur showed her even a little kindness, her old habits would resurface quickly. She had been 7 then—sincere yet spoiled, kind yet willful, her heart and her temper eq