broken-willed

Updated: May 23, 2025

Then she had been gloriously happy, feeling, because she and Victor loved each other, that the world was theirs; now she came a broken-willed, frightened woman, to plead with the man who had put her out of his life, to take her back. She would tell him that no matter what happened, she would never marry Théo, and then, when he realised that she meant this, she would beg him to take her back.

Bettina Von Hutten - The Halo