Chapter 211 Fractures

When Blanche was seventeen, she could not even stand the sight of a fowl being dressed in the courtyard. Once, she happened upon a barn cat tearing a sparrow apart in the stables, and the image haunted her dreams all night.

Let alone the Duchess of Grimwood, forced to watch her own horse killed before her eyes.

Inside the room, however, Gideon's anger had not cooled.

"She's heartbroken?" he said c