Legally His Omnibus
“Seven-thirty; soon she would have to go downstairs and join Dracco, who had warned her that unless she was ready to go out for dinner with him by eight o’clock he would personally ‘escort’ her downstairs.
‘Why are you doing this?’ she had demanded in furious frustration.
‘Why are you?’ he had countered with a coolness that had made her grind her teeth in impotent rage.
‘You know why I’m doing it. I don’t have any choice.’ ‘Of course you do,’ he had returned promptly. ‘You could choose to simply walk away if you wished to do so.’ ‘The shelter needs money—you know that,’ Imogen had argued bitterly.
That was true, and what was also true was that she didn’t think she could live with herself if she didn’t do everything she could to help. Perhaps a part of her determination to do so had its roots in the fact that she felt guilty because she had withheld her financial help for so long, she acknowledged.
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