...I am a little concerned that her actions are drawing too much attention. And she’s revealing that she knows too much. In the original time line, the mother made a comment years later right before she was killed. If her goal is to ride it out for one year and then runaway with her money and such, she should probably look to create as few ripples as possible, so people will be less suspicious and ask fewer questions of her behavior. Especially when her cruel brother returns. I wonder how he’ll react to all of this.
The ML isn’t really helping much here since he only has the title yet no reputation to Influence how her family is treating her. Even more so, how is being rude to her abusive parents going to help her in any way? But I guess it’s useful for “drama.”
Still interested in hearing more about his background since he mentioned that he felt like he knew her before...possibly they were both orphans together at one time? Childhood friends and forgot because that’s how plots work. And his arm...what’s going on there?!