Chapter 232

She had actually shown Theodore photos of other heiresses before, but none of them felt quite right. Especially when it came to family background—very few came close to matching the status of the Chambers. No matter how many profiles she reviewed, she just couldn't find one that satisfied all her boxes. Plenty of families caught wind of it and jumped at the chance to offer their daughters, but Davina didn't even bother looking at those. I mean, what kind of top-tier family goes around pushing their daughters like that? Zero dignity. That's when Lydia Bond popped up on the radar. Davina found out that the Bond family's daughter had recently returned from abroad, so she invited Mrs. Bond over for a visit. The two hit it off well enough during their chat. In Abyndale, the Chambers were the number one family, and the Bonds were undisputed number two. A marriage between them was the perfect game of power meets power. After just one meeting, Davina and Mrs. Bond had pretty much locked down t