The Scarlet Mark

Summary

When the affair of the right-hand man and the mistress came to light,

My father, the feared patriarch of the Sterling family, summoned all thirteen of his wives and all of us children into the grand hall of the estate.

He cracked his heavy leather belt against the marble floor:

"Speak! Which one of you put these horns on my head?!"

Chloe Sterling, my half-sister, spoke up, her tone perfectly mild:

"Well, in this whole house, only Harper doesn't look much like you, Dad..."

"And it seems like her family birthmark isn't very visible, either."