She’d been plagued by worries all her life, another one of her oddities. Perhaps it was because she’d never known a mama’s soothing love (her mother had died giving birth to her). Or because she hadn’t had any siblings or childhood friends with whom to air out these feelings. Or because she’d endured years of social ostracism, her peers at finishing school gleefully pointing out all her faults. Whatever the cause, her head was a repository of anxious thoughts. Since her marriage, she’d worked on improving herself, on becoming a wife worthy of Adam. What man wanted to be married to a woman who
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