Before The Scandal

Synopsis

I was the noble daughter of Ravensburg. My father was the most notorious chancellor in the empire. And yet, General Cohen Haley, the man whose entire family was destroyed by my father, kept climbing over our manor walls, sneaking into my chambers as if he owned the place. Then I found myself pregnant before marriage. Terrified, I went to the general's residence and confronted him. Cohen lounged lazily against the couch, eyes sharp, lips careless, voice cold and light. "Emmalyn," he said, "an unmarried woman consorting with a man without betrothal is a capital offense." A slow, mocking smile curved at the corner of his mouth. "By law," he added softly, "you should end your own life."