Chapter 24

There was a definite shift in the air around the manor. Every person was lively and excited because word had spread within the castles walls that I was to wed Master Abigor and in a matter of time, the word will spread further and further until all will know.

I am barely able to rid the smile on my face as my fingers delicately touch my lips and I think of how Master Abigor had kissed me under the moonlight on my balcony. I can feel my heart pick up speed as my mind is flooded with the memory of how it felt as though I were floating.

His lips had felt so cold yet so good moving against my own warm ones. He held me in place as his lips explored my own and pretty soon our hands had been all over each other's bodies as though we could not possibly get any closer.

I was pulled out of my fantasy at the sound of the oak doors being pushed open and I looked up to face my seamstress. I simply looked at the plump woman who