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Chapter Nine

Throughout the Viscountess stay, there had been many rumors about her circulating around the estate. It was so bad to the point where Caroline had even begun to hear them. Some were quite frankly ridiculous, like the rumor that she had bathed in the blood of children to stay young, or would transform into a wolf on the night of a full moon.

Others were more realistic; the most popular rumor both with the servants, as well as high society, was that the Viscountess had killed her husband in cold blood. A few weeks after the Viscountess' son, Jeremy, had been born the Viscount was found dead. He had been stabbed through the heart in his own bedchamber. Since he had passed the Viscountess was given control of his estate, until her son came of age.