He stood and pinched her chin hard to face him. “Be careful slave!” he said menacingly. She lowered her eyes in regret. Suddenly she found his lips lingeri

Ludwig had despised Penny a lot but when the guard reported that she walked around in the market squares yesterday night with Thomas, he couldn’t help but wonder and then seethe in rage thinking whether she kissed him or not. That boy was certainly having something about her. Throughout the night Ludwig contemplated on ruining his house and reducing it to dust and rubble or perhaps sending Thomas in the dungeons.

Ludwig shook his head, sitting about twenty feet away in a small tavern opposite to her shop. He was itching to see her again—those beautiful golden hair and blue eyes, which haunted him every waking hour and every sleeping spell. He was now her official stalker. He thought that he was looking for some sort of distraction. His beta suggested that he should vent his frustration out with other maids at the castle since his beta thought that he was missing Zoe. However, the only distraction that he wanted was the one who was working in the antique shop. 

Over the last few days, Ludwig had started collecting things that he thought he would gift her. There was an armoire full of dresses that would look suitable on her. There were lingerie too, especially red in color. He couldn’t help when his imagination ran wild. He had placed all the jewelry he had collected from her in the vintage shop in the armoire along with the dresses. Every night he would gaze at his growing collection for Penny. 

Penny walked towards the garden to watch the blossoms sway freely in the wind and she became jealous of them. When she was ready, she remembered that he had talked about an adjacent room. She walked to the door of the room that was closed. Books… It was time to check out the books he kept, but she didn’t even know how to read well. She had dropped out of the school when she was eleven, just after her first grade. Her parents didn’t have enough money to pursue her education. Her mother said that she would homeschool her, but even that never happened.