9. Sebastian and Aurora

PARIS

He grips the glass of brandy in his fist, as his assistant reads the newspaper, revealing the front-page update about the Elder Knight’s Engagement with the Governor’s daughter. This is not what he expected to happen at his back.

Is that why this entire holiday trip was planned for them? So that he and his wife don't intrude in the decisions of this alliance? Huh!! He should have guessed that beforehand. Without a reason, that old matriarch of the family, Caroline Knight, had never been so kind to them.

She must have sensed his plans and hence convinced her grandson for this association, in such a haste. She even chose to declare it to the media before her own family members!! Now he has to shuffle everything again, right from devising another way to fulfil his objectives. He won’t back down so easily.

A woman draped in a satin nightgown entered the room, her expression a mix of disappointment and frustration. "You heard the news?" she exclaimed, sinking onto the couch beside h