The Maid’s Little Girl Found the Duke Asleep—What She Did Changed Him Forever

Chapter 2

Meg Hollis had worked at Halloway Hall for nearly two years and had never once tested the silence of that corridor.

She had been a housemaid before she was a wife, and a housemaid again after, and she knew the weight of a house like this one better than she knew most people. She knew that the east corridor was walked lightly, that the third stair from the top of the back flight creaked, and that Mrs. Cottrell would forgive a dropped plate but never a lifted one.

She also knew grief, better than most of the gentry who employed her.