Garden Of May

After her parents’ deaths, what awaited Vanessa was crushing debt and marriage.

Her greedy uncle was more than willing to sell her off as the second wife of an elderly count, and to break off the engagement, she needed a scandal.

A truly terrible, utterly vile scandal.

“Vanessa.”

“……”

“Are you bored with life?”

He asked, sounding utterly dumbfounded.

“So bored that you’d waste it by getting involved with someone like me?”