The Rejected True Heiress
Then, the butler had come up behind me and shoved me into the room before I could make a run for it.
Everything that came after that was so fast it was hard to pinpoint any specific moment. I recalled being pushed down. The cold look in Callum’s mother’s eyes, completely unfeeling, as she lifted the teacup to my lips. My mouth being forced open. Swallowing the tea against my will.
The last thing I had seen before everything went dark was…
“Oh, Gods,” I whispered, looking up.
White gloves. The butler.
He was standing in front of me now, looking down at me with a tightly furrowed brow. One gloved hand came up to scratch his head.