Chapter 154

After weighing all her options and consulting the books in her father’s study, she realized that the law was not fair to women. If no man in her family showed up to claim her father’s title after three months, the title will go back to the crown and would be conferred on whomever the king chose to honor with it.

Besides, assuming someone indeed showed up what was to become of her? He could kick her out and she would have no inheritance. Her only option was to get married within the week. If she did not do so, her title and wealth would be all gone and most importantly, she would never know who bore enough ill will to kill him.

She looked over the marriage requests she had received thus far. There was one from Williams, Lord Conrad’s second son but she hated his fat lips and could not even endure the thought of having to kiss him when the priest pronounced them husband and wife; there was another from Philemon, the brother to the former Lord Tibet but he was old, very ol