This was something Madeline had promised herself to face alone. When she found out about her disorder, her uncle and Aunt had blamed her for being what she never chose to become.
There was a time when her father never once let her pay a visit to Roland, nor did he let Roland come over to their place.
They were never versed with one another, and whenever her father ended up reading letters Roland had sent, his expression would remain sour throughout the rest of the day.
She never understood the relationship they shared, and she couldn't process why her father had hid her from them until she started living with Roland. After her parents death, her father's executor made a statement that she was too underaged to run a house, and that led to Roland legally taking over her father's property for the meantime till she gets married.
