#LesFicFri "TREMBLE"

Her personal maid, Polly, was the one person she saw every day. Polly, who saw all of Veronica’s body—monstrous or not.

By the time Polly came to help her dress that morning of her eighteenth birthday, Veronica had slipped back into her nightdress and returned to her bed. She was reading The Tennant of Wildfell Hall again.

She had just read the passage where the heroine, Helen, slams the door on her debauched husband preventing him from doing … something. The scene always made Veronica tremble with excitement—or fear, she was not sure which—because it was such a daring thing to defy one’s husband.

Not that she would ever have to slam her door on a husband, debauched or otherwise. Her marriage prospects were nil, despite her parents’ wealth.

From THE SHAPE OF VERONICA by Stephanie Bull (a pen-name of Steve Turnbull), from Book 1 of VERONICA'S LIFE

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