Chapter 4

The air froze between us. Brandon parted his lips slightly, but not a single word came out.

No matter how much I tried to deny it, when I first stepped into that mansion within Haburg's Sovereign Road, I had once been truly fond of him.

Back then, my mother hadn't yet climbed into his father's bed.

She was just a struggling maid barely getting by.

We lived together in the newly built maid's quarters right beside that old mansion.

In Haburg, dignity was as much a luxury as land itself.

It was only because of the Malone family that I…