Heena looked at her, then turned to Kieran's mother.
Kieran's mother just shrugged elegantly. "For my family, I'm already dead. It doesn't matter."
Then Lucian's mother said, "My family, when they heard, immediately cut contact with me. My brother came to lecture me about propriety—saying I'd gone crazy, that at my age I'm still thinking about divorce, blah blah blah. But they can't actually do much to stop me."
Then Heena turned to Adrian's mother.
She said quietly, "My father held my funeral."
Everyone around her—even the other duchesses—looked shocked.
"What?!"
Adrian's mother nodded calmly. "Yes. He said that if my sister were alive, this day would never have come. That I'm not his daughter anymore. He literally held a mourning ceremony saying I had died. So in my relatives' eyes, I am dead."
Heena was genuinely surprised. 'That's... extreme.'
She looked at all four of them. "So, how is the divorce proceeding? Did your husbands agree?"
