Don't Want You Like a Best Friend (Mischief & Matchmaking, #1)

by Emma R. Alban

She must think about her laugh and her posture and the stories she can tell. Everything must be enticing and alluring, and God forbid she show any true human emotion or exhaustion. Ladies are nothing but grateful for male attention.

“Unhappy people are often cruel to avoid the cruelty within.”

To know that beyond simply being a woman—second class, chattel, property—she could feel even less like a person in the eyes of society.