17. The Heir to Morita Okiya, Part One (Part 3)

Part Two: Sumire

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She had nowhere else to turn and no one else to speak to but the source of everything right and wrong with her life: Corliss. From her time with the prince and the other British delegates, she knew they were lodged in a beautiful country house called Prosperous Peace Retreat, just outside Heian-kyo itself. She had never been there herself—all of her entertaining had been done in Gion or the Palace—and she felt the trespass on his privacy keenly. But perhaps the discomfort and unease she felt wasn’t due to a trespass on his territory so much as by crossing his threshold of her own initiative, it was a declaration of war. By putting this man first in her life, she was turning her back on Mrs Morita and the okiya forever.