All Chapters of Married to the Alpha Who Killed My Father: Chapter 11

The household staff found the stain on the floorboards three mornings after the wedding, and Aria had a lie ready before the maid had even finished asking about it."Wine," she said smoothly, not looking up from the letter she was pretending to read. "I knocked the glass over the first night. I should have mentioned it, I'm sorry for the mess."The maid, a soft-spoken young woman named Mira who'd been assigned to Aria's chambers, nodded and set about scrubbing the mark with lye soap, and Aria let out a breath she hadn't realized she was holding. It was, she reflected, remarkably easy to lie to people who had no reason to doubt her. It was Kade she worried about.She needn't have worried quite so much, not yet. Kade Thorne was many things, attentive, careful, uncomfortably perceptive in ways that kept catching her off guard, but he was also, in these first days of their marriage, determined to give her exactly the space he'd promised on their wedding night. He didn't ask about the stai