Property of a Noblewoman
“Marguerite Wallace Pearson di San Pignelli was Valerie’s mother. Valerie hadn’t doubted it, but hearing it was like an affirmation of who she was, and gave her back the identity that had been stolen from her at birth.
She called Winnie after they told her, just to let her know, and Winnie sounded shaken and tearful.
“I know it’s stupid,” she said, sniffing, “but I feel like I just lost the only sister I had.”
“I can be as big a pain in the ass as your niece, as I was as your sister. And I don’t care what you call me. Nothing’s changed.” But a lot had changed, and they both knew it. Valerie had gained an important piece of her history, a part she had never even known was lost. In spite of her mother’s coldness to her, she had been a happy person and had made peace with not being loved as a child and had overcome it, in great part thanks to Lawrence. But the lack of love she’d endured as a child was unnatural, and now she knew she had been deeply loved by her real mother.
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