“A kindness?” I repeat with a wild laugh. “You think yourself kind to me? Is that what you tell yourself so that you can sleep at night?” “Your ambition will eat you alive,” he replies. “Same as it did Miss Glass. I cannot let that happen to you.” Zounds, does this fool actually think he’s saving me? Another storybook hero to swoop in and rescue a girl from a dragon or a monster or herself—they’re all the same. A woman must be protected, must be sheltered, must be kept from the winds that would batter her into the earth. But I am a wildflower and will stand against the gales. Rare and
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