Mask of the Skylark

She deliberately leaned closer, her face wrinkling with contempt. "They say she worked as a prostitute in a small town. Cleo's just some gutter-born bastard from her mom being assaulted—nobody even knows who her real father is.

"If my son ever ended up marrying a girl like that, I'd honestly be sick to my stomach. This hasn't hit the rumor mill yet, but we really need to figure something out fast.