Chapter 77

•Evangeline•

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I woke up to an empty bed. Frowning, I looked to my side and saw that his side was still perfectly made, showing that he never came to bed last night, not even for a few hours.

Disappointment filled my body, making me sag my shoulders.

I waited for him last night for hours. He went out with his uncle and came back later at night. When I went to his study to talk to him, Scott didn't let me enter, he told me that Nikolai was busy and didn't have time. Scott also sounded so brusque, for a second there, he felt like a stranger, a cold stranger that I don't know anything about.

I caught a glimpse of him from the half-opened door, he was reclining back in his seat smoking a cigar. He had time for a smoke but didn't have a few seconds to spare to see me? How can he be so busy that he doesn't even have a few seconds to talk to his wife?

A knock on the door resounded in the room, I tossed aside the duvet and made my way to it. A maid stood outside, she was one of the cl