Chapter 44. Adeline Ashford

— …Oh, my God! Cassius, are you insinuating that my daughter is not worthy of something?

— Obviously, your family has basically unstable moral standards. It is beneath anyone's dignity to attack a lady's honor that has already been promised to another.

— Who says she's «promised» to anyone? My Maxie has never yet yielded to anyone!

— Rachel was the first, so you have no right…

— Yes, I do!

The two stood opposite each other in the office of the Duke of Cassius, and argued as if the future of their families depended on who Lady Ashford stayed with. It had been going on for more than an hour.

The Marquis of Windsor was shocked to be the last person to know about his daughter's personal preferences. To him, a seasoned warrior, the «new trends» among the young seemed a complete surprise. After all, until then, the man had rightly believed that Maxie was in principle interested only in battles and nothing else…