Overdue Desire

Daphne

I’ve always been the "good" daughter. The one who wore the right dresses, smiled at the right donors, and never made a scene unless it was choreographed for maximum impact. But sitting in the plush, overly silent library of the Lancaster estate, I felt like a background character in my own life.

Kaelen was never home. And when he was, he looked through me like I was a piece of expensive fur