Find Him, Then Let This Go

Sera

A maid walked into the room. She wore her glossy black hair pulled back into a low, messy bun at the nape of her neck. She smiled at me with thin pink lips and shook a pill bottle.

“Antibiotics,” she said. “I swear. I can take one to prove to you it’s not something to knock you out.”

“It’s okay,” I cut in, my heart hammering in my chest. I’d almost been caught with the phone. Thank God it hadn’t been Killian who’d come in. He would’ve seen right past my strained expression and known I’d done something I shouldn’t have.

The maid frowned and clicked her tongue when she spotted the charcuterie board sitting on the dresser. She moved over to it, her skirt rustling with every step. “You didn’t eat. No bother. I’ll have something else sent up for you. You need to eat with the medication, even if it’s just a bit of milk. Okay?”

“I will,” I said, only agreeing with her to get her out of the room so I could make another desperate call.

She smiled and set the pill bottle on the table next