*Daphne*

Daphne stared up at the large manor with nothing but trepidation running through her. Unlike the first time she had come to the Blackwood estate, her nerves were now coiling with worry and her expectations were rather grim.

Blackwood Manor was now legally her home...

The very notion sounded like a joke. A cruel, sick joke made up by one of the buzzing reporters that circled them earlier.

Daphne hadn’t read much of the stories ...