Chapter 599

• I gathered that she had been sold to a man, who had in turn sold her to another woman. Passed from hand to hand, she had made her way across the Continent, being passed from one man to another.
• Finally, Stan had entered the picture, and by then, her Master had grown tired of her. I gathered that he had sold her to Stan, who had been her lover since.
• From what I picked up, Stan Cummingham was a small-time thug. But I was a little intrigued because Stan seemed to be jumping to obey her orders, not the other way around. I tried to feel sympathetic, but something about her tears as she huddled into Lucien ’s deep chest, made me feel more than a little annoyed.