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” They ended up continuing their affair and Anthony said they could be together for a real, as he was a viscount and his sister a duchess, meaning no one would dare say anything. Siena corrected that no one would say anything to him.
Despite trying to stay away, they gravitated back to each other briefly and resumed their affair. After his sister became a duchess, Anthony believed that the elevation of her status combined with his own would make it possible for him to marry Siena, but Siena herself knew deep down that she would never truly be accepted into Anthony’s world, nor would she fit in there to begin with.