Chapter 4

When I finally blinked my eyes open, I was in my bedroom, in my bed.

Confused, I pushed myself up to my elbows. Hadn’t I fainted at the charity event?

A maid tidied around the room, dusting here and there without any real purpose. What she was doing seemed like busywork, as if her real job was to keep an eye on me, but that couldn’t be. There was no way Lucian would ask her to do such a thing, after how coldly he acted at the gala.

When she spotted me, awake and upright, she immediately abandoned her dust…