"Do you see what I told you, my Lord?" Lady Louisiana exclaimed as she paced around the drawing room, her face carrying a sour, bitter look of distress. "This is exactly what I was afraid of since the very day she came into our lives. A tarnished name and now a scandal! Isabelle will be the fall of the Dawsons!"
Duke Griffin sat heavily on the chair, shaking his legs in agitation, mirroring the restlessness of his wife. "What shall we do now, since the rumors have already begun to spread about what she did and how she behaved?"
He had fought tirelessly to protect his family's name after the disgrace that had happened many years ago, but it seemed history was repeating itself all over again, and ironically, once more because of another Isabelle. Rumors were already saying she had gone insane, and people were beginning to question their family, dragging back into the open matters from the past that were better buried.
