Velvet Boundaries - Part 1 🌸🌿💚

Velvet Boundaries - Part 1 🌸🌿💚

The south of Essen was not a place where people hurried. Broad, tree-lined avenues curved between old villas, their gardens carefully hidden behind wrought-iron fences and ivy-covered walls. In one of those houses — sandstone, three stories, tall windows framed with white shutters — Louisa von Hohenfels had grown up.

Brunette, curvy, and with a habit of wearing fitted jeans that balanced comfort with style, Louisa had always moved in two worlds: the rarefied, old-money circles of her family, and the lively academic sphere of her work at the University of Bochum, where she was a young research associate in cultural history. Her parents were investors, her aunts and sisters all impeccably married or running family-owned businesses. Together, they formed one of the wealthiest families in the Ruhrgebiet. ...