Rosamund needs the overseer to protect the estate. Leona offers her authority at a price. The two women work in close quarters to save their home. Rosamund stays for the connection she cannot name.

Every ledger review turns into discipline. Leona bends her over the desk and delivers measured spanks. The count grows longer each time they search the documents. The silver streak at her temple catches the light as she claims more. Rosamund denies the hunger that draws her back each night. The correction deepens their bond with every strike.

The estate and their bond hang in the balance. Rosamund dreads the day the arrangement ends, yet she breaks another rule anyway. The ancestral home could slip away with one discovery.

Leona unlocks the attic trunk.