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Zoe And The Best Man
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2018
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“Oh, no.” Mrs. Ogden shook her perfectly coiffed head. Once raven-haired, she’d gone silver-gray very suddenly in her early fifties and declined to try to reclaim her “natural” color through dye. “Not at all.”
“Of course, I didn’t realize you had a connection with him when I started to work for you—”
“I’d hardly call it a connection, dear.” The older woman set her teacup down on its saucer with a genteel clink. “It was a rather distant link by marriage for what cannot, in all honesty, be considered a significant period of time. Which isn’t to say I didn’t develop a fondness for the boy. I did. And I quite sympathized with his situation. Imagine being orphaned at age ten, then packed off to live with a bunch of hidebound rela fives who make no secret of the fact that they don’t consider you worthy to bear their family name. It would be enough to drive anyone wild, much less a youngster of Gabriel’s spirit and sensitivity.”
Zoe bridled automatically at this last characterization. Then her mind replayed the truly unsettling portion of what’d she’d just heard. The part about being orphaned and unwanted at age ten. How in God’s name could people consider a young, probably grief-stricken boy unworthy of anything? she asked herself, appalled.
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