Chapter 18: A Welcome to The Family

*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 that those people were writing about her, but seeing a few of those headlines truly got her thinking.

What would the rest of Alistair’s family think of her? About their relationship?

Would she be seen as some kind of gold digger, who’s ‘worked’ her way up through the family? Would they even care that Rowan was technically the one who left ‘her’?

She almost took a faulty step back, not wanting to cross the threshold and face the terrifying music that awaited them both. But something had captured her hand in a warm, secure embrace.