Chapter 39: The Nursing Mother
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Updated : Jan 25th, 2026
Truth be told, Reina Sowden had a scheme brewing.
At night, she planned to get Joseph Lyson drunk. She would make sure her sister got tipsy too, then she would pretend she had slept with Joseph. When he sobered up and found her beside him, he would assume he had taken advantage of her while drunk. Guilt would gnaw at him, and she would push him to pay off her usury debts.
The thought left her very pleased.
She and her sister, Della Sowden, threw themselves into washing and chopping, moving with...
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