A Escrava Isaura 6.199 · 6.199

A dark hint at her day: others too have offered to 'free' her — the men whose desire the earlier chapters showed. Freedom dangled as a lure. Her innocence contrasts the one pure offer, her father's, with the tainted ones she will not name.

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