World of Vanessa — The Duchess of Ashcombe, Page 36
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A crowd gathers on a cobbled street outside a building marked “HAWTHORNE FAMILY BUTCHERS.” A dark-haired woman with a white streak in her hair holds the wrist of a red-haired girl with a braid and reaches toward a black-haired woman in purple wearing a tiara. The crowd watches; several people look startled. Dark-haired woman: “This stops now. No one is hitting my daughter!”
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A dark-haired woman with a white streak grabs a red-haired girl’s wrist and holds out her other hand toward a black-haired, tiara-wearing woman in purple, while a crowd watches outside Hawthorne Family Butchers.
About this chapter
Vanessa reluctantly makes her yearly visit to her duchy, Ashcombe, a very tiny English village. Her attempt at a charm offensive ends up being none of the former and too much of the latter.
