Thinking of Kingston suddenly appearing in the middle of a cold night, offering a warm embrace, saying something she might desperately want to hear—it felt like indulging a brutal desire, but it had never happened at all.Pandora’s breath came in ragged gasps. Restless, she stared out the window, her thoughts beyond control. This wasn’t Kingston’s usual behavior, which she could rationalize. Exactly as if; at least something was troubling him, and the man wasn’t ready to simply say everything plainly.An hour ago....The moment when an arm reached through the drapes, then calmly parted the curtains—Pandora had briefly thought then that she would find her husband back in a state that was... all right. It was only a palace servant, and the tension in her shoulders immediately slumped without meaning. Slumped without—even up to this very moment, Kingston hadn’t returned. Pandora began to wonder if Kingston didn’t care about her, leaving her alone like that as a duty,
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