Chapter Eight
Rebecca yearned for her freedom. Every day she felt a fiery anger rise, and every day she squelched that fire. She had plans for escape, ones she was sure would work to secure the freedom that she wanted, yet, as much as she yearned for freedom, she wanted Louis Nicolet more. To have him would be her first accomplishment, and once she had him to her satisfaction—perhaps bested him in the game he played—then she’d make her exit. Until that time, the anger would have to succumb to the compliant side of her nature. She would have to put on the garments of the dutiful and submissive w***e. She would lace her obedience with a degree of spunk, enough daring to assure Jessica and Louis that she was still the spirited young woman they knew her to be. She would give them cause to rep
