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Lady Catherine raised her hand high and somewhere seeing it above her face made Rose to squeeze her hands together. She wondered if she would be hit. Yet more than the pain of being hit, she was more frightened by how their relationship will affect Dominic. But contrary to her thought, Lady Catherine had instead pulled her hands, squeezing them tightly. Her eyes looked back at Rose’s green ones, giving her a gentle smile, “I know you are worried, but my thoughts on you would not change, Rose. I am sure you know what happened to my daughter and I do not want to repeat the same mistake.”

“Mistake?” Rose asked. She couldn’t tell how Lady Catherine had made a mistake. She knew what had happened wasn’t a mistake. It was the matter of choice. Lady Elizabeth had chosen the Duke, but that didn’t mean she had made the wrong choice. Instead, she did made the correct choice only for her choice to be betrayed when the Duke had driven her to madness.

“My mistake wasn’t that I had accepted Starvos