I could not tell if it was the silk dress hugging my skin or the quiet of the house that made me feel I was being observed or if it was the message still flashing in my mind though I had already deleted it. “Publicize it and you will lose a lot of money because your father owes us money." And I stood in front of a mirror taking my breath short, and twitting the fronts of my dress. I could tremble once, but now I felt nervous because of another thing, my heart kind of went fast because it understood that something was about to happen badly. "I will go downstairs,” I said, and shouted it out, i did not know if Killian heard me or not. I was not even able to know where he was within the house. He moved past me like a lost soul, and I loathed the reality which I adored, without surrendering my hat I left the room, and passed into the hall, and every footstep out of the room resounded in the marble. I was to face the press, i was to make a statement that was going to kill Gra
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