Was what she’d just done was selfish? What did the word even mean? Violet contemplated the mirror. When her husband called her selfish for refusing to go to bed with him, what had he meant? I deserve my chance to have an heir more than you deserve to live. When Lily said it would be selfish of Violet to ally herself with Sebastian, what did she mean? My attendance at balls is more important than your happiness. When Violet called herself selfish, that was what she meant—that she didn’t deserve the thing she wanted. Not happiness. Not recognition. Maybe not even her own life.
