eyes immediately filled with tears, but she shook her head.
Then footsteps approached behind us.
Daniel appeared.
“Everything okay?”
Emily went pale.
“Perfect,” I said.
That was the moment I realized fear existed inside that house almost like another member of the family.
When Daniel walked me to the car that evening, Victoria called after us, “Next time, Claire, perhaps you can help Emily learn how a proper woman behaves.”
I gave her a polite smile.
They interpreted it as submission.
That was their first mistake.
Daniel’s family knew only
