Seeds of Doubt

VANESSA

I wasn’t going to sit around and wait.

Waiting was for weak, passive women like Daphne—women who cried themselves to sleep and hoped things would magically change in their favor. That wasn’t me. If I wanted something, I went after it. And right now, I wanted Dominic to see reason.

The past few days had been… interesting, to say the least. My conversation with Beatrice had gone exactly as I