Chapter 122 - Miscalculated

Before Delice saw the mark, she had already caught on to the scent since Lady Zezi came into the hallway and her head hug slightly in submission.

An action she had done instinctively.

Her gaze shifted when Zezi grabbed her hand with urgency, and ushered them into her room that she had just been coming out from.

"He knows I am weak. He told the Physician to look at me while I was passed out. He will find out everything. Tell me you have a solution."

The words poured out of her mouth the moment they were in Lady Delice's room.

"You bare his mark." She sounded like she was in a daze, her hand reaching up slowly to the bite marks that had more significance in them than meets the eyes.

Once upon a time, she had wanted those to design her neck.

Although, for a while now, she had been able to convince herself that she didn't want that anymore, but that surge that she had always felt stirred through her again, and although she fought hard to suppress it, jealousy tasted bitter on her tongu